Get a raspberry pi. Install the command line but no graphical environment. If you mess it up, you just have to restart the sim card. > My laptop isn't powerful

Get a raspberry pi. Install the command line but no graphical environment. If you mess it up, you just have to restart the sim card. > My laptop isn't powerful enough to support virtual machine. How weak is your laptop? I started using linux on a shitty chromebook with 1gb of ram