Going off the questions you’re asking here theres some fundamentals you don’t understand and you’re in over your head until you do some more reading
You are correct and this is very much a learning moment for me
Not a bad place to be asking questions I assure you. In your case, I would recommend dual booting your Mac with Linux, so you can switch between the two. There are lots of guides on how to do this online, and I’m pretty sure mac has pretty intuitive built in tools. Boot camp I think it’s called?
Going off the questions you’re asking here theres some fundamentals you don’t understand and you’re in over your head until you do some more reading
You are correct and this is very much a learning moment for me
Not a bad place to be asking questions I assure you. In your case, I would recommend dual booting your Mac with Linux, so you can switch between the two. There are lots of guides on how to do this online, and I’m pretty sure mac has pretty intuitive built in tools. Boot camp I think it’s called?
Not a Mac guy for the record