Author here. For me, it's less about a Linux environment. For that, I use VMware, Docker, or another machine, if needed. But the Pi Zero is great precisely bec

Author here. For me, it's less about a Linux environment. For that, I use VMware, Docker, or another machine, if needed. But the Pi Zero is great precisely because I'm doing more with hardware lately, and so I have 40 GPIO pins available to do hardware testing on.