What is the best way to learn another operating system besides

>>62139230
virtual machines

There is nothing to learn if you want minimum effort, just get an Ubuntu or Mint image and figure it out as you go. Most of the advanced stuff is preconfigured and scripted for you.

>>62139241
this, you can install and reinstall however much you want without modifying your windows install.

honest question here

why is /g/ suddenly obsessing about source mage? it's a good distro, but what is the reason behind this new found obsession with it? wasn't /g/ supposed to be infatuated with gentoo?

>>62139230
Avoid virtual machines. Their performance is shit. Download an OS and flash the iso to a USB, live boot into the OS. Test it out. If you like how it looks install it onto a partition and boot into it every once in a while.

>>62139308
You're right about the performance, but a complete noob shouldn't care about performance. They should be learning how to use the operating system, and they'll be reading a tutorial or watching a video while learning the OS so they probably wouldn't even notice.

Besides, if your CPU was manufactured in the last decade and virtualization extensions are enabled in your bios config, there shouldn't be any major performance penalty.

>>62139778
>Besides, if your CPU was manufactured in the last decade and virtualization extensions are enabled in your bios config, there shouldn't be any major performance penalty.

Until you come across the asshole that has a Celeron and 2GB RAM running Windows 10.

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Just format everything and install Arch.
That's what I did and I only cried two nights.