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.
VMWare Workstation is free now.
Hyper-V is too if you are not on the home version of windows.
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.
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.
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.
A decent quality USB 3 flash drive will be plenty fast for a read only live boot.
Live USB boot IMO, you remove the virtualization performance overhead.
I prefer to boot a live USB first to get a better feel
This one. Easier setup, cleanup’s a breeze, no muss, no fuss.
Probably, but there’s also DistroSea
That or live cd (well, most likely live usb nowadays)
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.
