I currently have a Mac, but thinking of getting Linux in addition to that for some little side projects I want to do. My MacBook serves its main purpose really

I currently have a Mac, but thinking of getting Linux in addition to that for some little side projects I want to do. My MacBook serves its main purpose really well though, I use it for research and writing essentially, and I do a little bit of my business stuff on it, but nothing fancy since it’s mainly all just done through accounting software and my accountant sorts the other shit… But I’m wanting to explore a little more of the software/programming side of stuff and experimenting with that sort of thing so I’m going to use Linux for that, and basically I just want to see what I can achieve with basically just a raspberry pi and Linux, and build on it from there. I’m very much winging it so I know I sound like an idiot.