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Yes, it's super easy to do as well. Most distro installers give you the option to automatically install for dual-boot without any manual partitioning.
Definitely try Mint, I was on it for years and it is very thoughtfully designed for stability and ease if use.
The hardest part will be getting the liveUSB made for the Linux ISO. You can find some simple tools like Balena Etcher that make it easy though.
I tried this with Mint and broke my Windows partition somehow.
That's a bummer, sorry man. That is super rare though, I've never heard of that happening to anyone else in my 10+ years of Linux life. Don't let it keep you from trying it again. I guess that is a testimony to the importance of backups, especially when working with partitions.
OP, the most trouble I've ever heard of or experienced myself was some GRUB issues, which are just a matter of the bootloader recognizing that there is a windows or Linux partition alongside whatever is being booted up. There are a ton of tutorials on how to address that type of issue though, it's usually a matter of one or two commands in a terminal or command prompt.
Same here. It somehow broke my BIOS and I couldn't even force it to boot off my windows install flash drive!