Hi
@MarSernna, and welcome! Yes, virtualization may be one of the best ways to explore Linux. There are several virtualization programs that you can use, but the only one I have any familiarity with is
VirtualBox. It is free and fairly simple to use. As I recall, in the install process, VirtualBox asks permission to install 3 other helper apps, and I'd recommend letting it download and install them.
After that, you need to download some Linux .iso files to install as virtual machines. We highly recommend that you "verify the checksum" of the .iso file to be sure that your download was complete and not corrupted before you install it in VirtualBox. All of the Linux distros will provide a checksum value, usually either MD5 or SHA256. There is an excellent free program to verify these checksum values that you can download
here.
Linux is often installed by first transferring the .iso file to a DVD or USB flash drive, but this has to be done in a special way so that it will be bootable on your computer. With VirtualBox, you don't need to do this step and it can install the .iso file directly. I won't get into the details of that yet though until you get up to that point. Maybe someone else will recommend another virtualization program that you would prefer to try.
For each Linux that you want to try, you would probably have VirtualBox give it 1 or 2 GB of system RAM, and you probably want to give each Linux about 25-30 GB of hard drive space. These are just starting points and you can recover the drive space later when you decided to remove some of them. When you find one your really like a lot, before going too far with it... you might choose to delete that one too so that you can create it again with more hard drive space if you think you will use it that way for a long time. In many ways using a VM is better than attempting to dual-boot Windows and Linux, but there may be some drawbacks that you discover too... a VM is not the same as running on real hardware, even though it does do a very nice job.
Some of the many distros that I would recommend to start with are:
Linux Mint 19 (MATE or Cinnamon editions.... but because of a current problem, if you try to install one of these, do not let it connect to the internet during installation. After install the internet should work fine).
Ubuntu is another popular distro.... I like the MATE desktop of this one too... the standard Gnome 3 desktop is something that some people love, and some people hate.
Manjaro is currently the most popular distro on
DistroWatch... and their list of Top 100 distros is a great place to start to review what is available to you. Just about anything in the top 20 would be good to check out, except Kali.... Kali is a specialized distro for security professionals.... it is really not a good distro for beginners.
The great thing here is that using a VM lets you install, test, and delete the various distros at will until you find those that seem to suit you best. Much of the choices are just a matter of taste.... how the distro looks and feels to you personally. It is great to have so many choices available!
Cheers