The simple way is to dual boot or even simpler, set up a Linux distro in a Windows VM.
Let's you play/see if the distro works for you.
TBH, I've got 1 machine where Windows is more problematic than the Ubuntu that is setup to dual boot... Can't bring myself to do a fresh install of Windows lol...
Excitedly get new machine. Install Debian.
Not so excitedly search error messages.
Dejectedly find need kernel/drivers that's 18 months later than the Debian versions
boot sysrescuecd to find next distro to write to USB drive ....
kick self for buying shiny, latest hardware without checking for linux support. Again....๐ก