Bought pi4 can I view and control from my laptop

[KF0AWL]

Well I went shopping to see if I could pick up a zero 2w and ended up with a Canakit pi4 starter kit.
Now my question is can I setup and operate it from my laptop or do I need to buy a keyboard and mouse and screen now to?
If it's possible for a dummy to work things from a laptop hdmi plug can someone put it in simple to understand steps before I fork out more money?

[KJ4DHF]

All the Pi can be setup and run headless. You can run it from your pc via terminal or you can run it with a desktop on the Pi using VLC. After the system is up and running from SD card etc.

Do a google search setting up Pi headless.

[M1DNS]

Pistar image is designed to run headless. Just power the pi.

Everything is done via the web browser once you have the pi connected to ur home network.

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