If you are using Linux and not Windows on your laptop then some of the files that you have to use during this course will be different. In particular, the simplified version of the generation program that we use, KPML, is only made for Windows. One way to get round this is simply to download and run a Windows Emulator on your Linux laptop. This means that you use Windows programs within Linux.
One of the most well-known of these emulators is 'Wine'. You can download executable files that run Wine for different versions of Linux from the page: http://www.winehq.org/site/download
Some of the other programs we use (e.g., the Prolog system) can be run on both Windows and Linux, if you download the right version of the program. When you do this, the examples might look a bit different to the pictures given on the website but the important details should be the same.
Installing things for Linux will be more complicated than the Windows procedure, and will depend on which Linux you have. But that is what you 'buy' into when you use Linux and so you should be prepared for this! I will not be able to help you on individual Linux problems.