do you use some kind of flavor of ubuntu already, or do you run a virtual box to just test all of that?
I haven't touched a Linux box of any kind since I left my position working for a state contractor in 2010. Literally 13 years of systems development I've ignored as best I could since leaving IT. Even back in the early 2000's, I didn't
use the Ubuntu box at work, I just sat down at it, connected to the database and ran our SQL script tests before submitting them to the state for approval, three commands and a file save of the error log. Then I went down the hall back to my Win2K server farm, and kept building servers and setting them up in Active Directory for deployment. I'm a former admin, definitely not dev. I was the poor bastard that got sent to the dev room to tell them that management wanted it faster than last week and to do it with fewer hours, even though their work had little to do with me at all, I just installed their updates, I didn't care when they were done. /one of many reasons I hated that gig.
If I decide I want to try Linux again, I will be playing with it in the future on my 2017 Core-i7 box which I've historically hacked MacOS on to and has been my daily driver for the last 5.5 years.The new Mac will not be my personal machine, it will only do audio work.
With a machine that I'm paying Apple to keep running, it gives me time to play with the Core-i7, it's only got 4 cores, but as far as I care it's more than capable to be a hobby box for browsing the web-places work machines shouldn't really go. Using Linux or Windows is the only decission at this point. I won't be doing anything in virtualized areas or running any kind of server, just tinkering with my computer junk that's not quite fully out-dated yet.