You can flash a USB drive with an image using Balena or Rufus for example (there are numerous tutorials out there), then insert the USB drive into a port and boot into BIOS/UEFI (depends on your computer how to do that exactly please look it up online), then either set that USB drive to boot priority #1 or (preferrably) use a boot override if your computer is able to do that. Hit Save&Exit and you’ll boot Linux from that drive.
That will boot into a live environment where you can try how everything feels, is handled, just look around. At this point, you did not install everything and no permanent changes are made to your computer (except for maybe boot priority).
This way, you can try out different distros with different desktop environments without installing anything.
You can flash a USB drive with an image using Balena or Rufus for example (there are numerous tutorials out there), then insert the USB drive into a port and boot into BIOS/UEFI (depends on your computer how to do that exactly please look it up online), then either set that USB drive to boot priority #1 or (preferrably) use a boot override if your computer is able to do that. Hit Save&Exit and you’ll boot Linux from that drive.
That will boot into a live environment where you can try how everything feels, is handled, just look around. At this point, you did not install everything and no permanent changes are made to your computer (except for maybe boot priority).
This way, you can try out different distros with different desktop environments without installing anything.