I've had an opportunity to play around with few different versions of Linux over the last couple of weeks and thought that others may benefit from my experience.
A safe and easy way to try Linux is to download an ISO image of the Linux variant that you would like to try, then burn it on a CD/DVD and boot your computer with this new CD. As you are booting off your hard drive, you would not affect the Windows version that you have on your hard drive, and if you know what you are doing, you might actually be able to access your Windows data at the same time.
The method I just described is referred to as running Linux off of LiveCD. If you want to avoid the whole messy part of burning and using CDs, you can try a LiveUSB version of Linux.
To create a LiveUSB boot disk (on your 1GB or higher USB stick) I recommend you download UNetbootin utility from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ and follow the instructions. I prefer LiveUSB over a LiveCD version of Linux as CDs get scratched, are clunky and slower than USB sticks.
Once you decide to try Linux, you have to decide which flavour (also called a distribution) of Linux is right for you. For beginners, I would advise PCLINUXOS or Linux Mint. There may be others that would work but this is all that I have tried so far. Ubuntu is supposed to be easy to use, but I have no experience with it.
Let me know what your experience is with Linux and if you find another distribution of Linux that you like.
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