That sounds like the current state when the book was published, however the current V1 course has everything in Kaggle / or Colab to save the hassle of setting up an environment. (The book material is still used as reference, though the order and some lesson content has changed as you would expect in a fast moving field.)
There is no need to go down the renting a Full Linux Server yet, and when that is something, you wish to pursue (ie because you’ve hit the limits of those services in size or speed requirements), then Jeremy’s live code sessions are a great help there. Live-coding (aka walk-thrus) ✅