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Ben Calder

+1 to the suggestion to try a few distros before installing. You can install to a VM if you want to test over a few days; but for a quick look you can also boot many straight off a USB drive.

In fact I always have a USB drive with Linux installed at the ready. On a couple of occasions I've had an OS (usually Windows) fail to boot because of corrupted files; and been able to boot Linux from USB to access the drive and either fix things or recover my files.