Need to learn some linux/unix/ubuntu skills should I get a Macbook or do what I can with a PC? i can get a good macbook for about $600 i7, 256 gb and 16 ram
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Buy a desktop with a mother board with at least a 16 core CPU and tons of memory. It will be cheaper than an equivalent Mac
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Why do you consider purchasing a mac for linux? Just install linux on your PC
Well Mac has ubuntu
I think you mean Unix commands. Get a windows pc and you can get a mini Ubuntu environment in windows via WSL.
If you just want to learn Linux, get a raspberry pi
I actually have one
Then why don't you use it? What's the advantage of using a Mac for this use case?
Some data engineering requires a GPU for faster processing with cuDF, RAPIDS. You can see 10-100x speed up in many cases. The majority of the libraries only support CUDA. I would go with PC with Linux since you can’t run CUDA on Mac. But if you are learning the basics, you could do that with a cloud instance.
Whatever will run spark / Hadoop. I don’t think you can run it on windows but haven’t personally tried. I’d recommend Mac or Linux. Im primarily a data engineer have a MacBook Pro and I can run pyspark + Jupyter notebook for testing random stuff. Plus the tooling on Mac is pretty decent (brew can install most anything, ie parquet-tools, less, Java/scala, etc). The plus side of a Mac over Linux is that it’s a pleasant UI experience so useable for other things outside of DE learning. You don’t need a massive machine if you are just trying to learn and keep the datasets a reasonable size
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