I used to play 'musical distros' to the point of having more than 8 different distros on a single 160GB hdd. Lmao!
It was a good way to learn a bit about disk partitioning and GRUB.
Why not try out the systems you're interested in so you can judge for yourself?
Setting up an extended partition isn't too hard, plus a grub menu with several different OS impresses Windows users and you get to run the systems natively - faster than a VM.

It helps if you have a test machine so you don't mess up your daily driver, but even with all the fiddling with my hdd I never did bork my system completely by losing data.
A couple of grub misconfiguration panics, but nothing I couldn't fix after some Googling.