quissberry ,

This is what I did, and it did its goal in making me comfortable using Linux. However, like what others suggest, live USB is probably much more easier honestly.

somnuz ,

My preference is „bare metal” approach, then I really know if everything is working as it should, so I had a separate drive for Linux installation at the beginning and got to my other drives by just mounting them as NTFS.

But, finally I am at the point of no return for some time now, the old Windows drive is not even inside of my PC and the other drives are ext4 already.

For a quick check Live CDs/USBs are totally fine but not fully representative.

lazynooblet ,
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VMWare Workstation is free now.

slazer2au ,

Hyper-V is too if you are not on the home version of windows.

tooclose104 ,
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I use VBox to run my PiHole for now and have used it to play with a couple distros side by side. I also have a sup'd up tower built from spare parts from work, so resources aren't a constraint.

jws_shadotak ,

As others have said - Live USB.

Set up a USB stick with Ventoy and you can throw a bunch of distros on there so you can trial all of them without needing to flash a new USB.

Just put the ISOs on the Ventoy flash drive and boot into Ventoy.

unwillingsomnambulist ,

This - but I’d take it a step further and use a small-ish USB 3.2 SSD with Ventoy instead. That way, your live Linux experience isn’t kneecapped by having to load programs off a slow USB stick. In a pinch you can use a SATA SSD with a USB-SATA adapter too, that way you can cram a ton of ISOs on there and go to town.

cmnybo ,

A decent quality USB 3 flash drive will be plenty fast for a read only live boot.

Dudewitbow ,

Live USB boot IMO, you remove the virtualization performance overhead.

breadsmasher ,
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I prefer to boot a live USB first to get a better feel

homesweethomeMrL ,

This one. Easier setup, cleanup’s a breeze, no muss, no fuss.

NegativeLookBehind ,
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Probably, but there’s also DistroSea

JRaccoon ,
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That or live cd (well, most likely live usb nowadays)

arniegeddon ,

It's a good way to try it out. You can also use a live usb or cd where you can boot Linux into memory and it won't affect your current installation.

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