

You can do directed WiFi with pretty long range. But you have to set up both transmitter and receiver antenna, and you’ll want to tune the direction of both antenna since radio waves don’t travel in a straight line along the surface of the Earth. Bit of a faff really.
Long-range Wi-Fi - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi
I think you should be able to do a USB drive boot of the distro you are interested in and check whether you can get all these things working? It’ll run slow though so don’t be scared of performance is less than you were hoping for. It’ll be much better in the install.