The Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide is out now (and it's huge!) - Raspberry Pi
If you now have a taste for Linux and coding then you could do a lot worse than getting yourself a Raspberry Pi. But where to start? Download this book from the Raspberry Pi foundation and change your life. 244 page PDF that's absolutely free introducing you to the amazing things you can do with one of these amazing little computers.
The link to Linux? Raspbian is also based on a Linux kernel which will give you common ground between your newly ubunticised laptop and your Raspberry Pi.
Do something amazing today, you are limited only by your imagination :-)
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