I have learned not to trust ChatCPT. It did not know about the Prince of Wales who drown in the English Channel. It told me a false tale of the life, children, and career of a child of Alma and Gustav Mahler who died as a child. If I did not already know the history of these people, ChatGPT would have steered me wrong.

Any old laptop or desktop you have can be a Liniux computer if you install Oracle's VirtualBox. I had 5 flavors of Linux installed on an old MacBook Pro from 2011 and on several iMac desktops. It is free for personal use. It is rather cool to host multiple OS installations on one piece of hardware.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

About VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.

For a thorough introduction to virtualization and VirtualBox, please refer to the online version of the VirtualBox User Manual's first chapter.

WIFIRE is an integrated system for wildfire analysis, with specific regard to changing urban dynamics and climate. The system integrates networked observations such as heterogeneous satellite data and real-time remote sensor data, with computational techniques in signal processing, visualization, modeling, and data assimilation to provide a scalable method to monitor such phenomena as weather patterns that can help predict a wildfire's rate of spread.

https://wifire.ucsd.edu/wifire-mission