I recently got a 500GB Samsung T7 USB hard drive which I would like to use for a while at least to toy/experiment with linux distributions. Problem is, it seems fairly difficult to actually install ...

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There's an easy way to experiment and answer those questions: taking a Linux operating system for a test drive without making any harmful changes to your PC. If you're thinking of switching to Linux ...