Do some research into the different distributions, I personally tend to stick with Debian based systems, to each their own. Pick one of the many hundreds if not thousands of flavors, is where you can keep track of some of te more popular builds. You can build a live boot disk and not have to commit anything if you're not ready yet. If you decide you want to go balls to the wall and install it as your primary but feel that you still need Windows to do certain tasks, and gave up on wine after years of headache and disappointments, look into and then you can have Windows on demand™ instead of having to set up something like a dual boot. I have VMs of 7, 8.1, and 10 ... Also, if Windows security is a concern of yours, you should really look into the .
*Edit, be mindful of the country of origin from whatever build you choose. Mint's a good starter, I hear POP is pretty good, I've tried manjaro when it shot up to the top of distrowatch knocking mint out of 1st after a couple+ years and didn't really get into it. Stay away from builds like Slackware, gentoo, and arch for now.
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