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VMs are a way, but Live USB sticks are better because you will see how it actually runs on your bare metal machine, and if there see any hardware quirks, without comitting to an install
Ventoy is a godsend in that case. If you have a big enough USB stick, you can just put all distros you wanna try on it
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