@CozyKoala77
What you can btw also do:
You can test Linux in a virtual machine, running within Windows. There's a free software called VirtualBox, available at https://www.virtualbox.org/ .
With it you can setup a virtual machine, a virtual PC, "within" your physical PC/Windows.
Such virtual machine "emulates" a computer. With a virtual DVD drive, a virtual harddrive, and so on. You can "insert" the ISO file Linux media into the virtual DVD drive, and boot the virtual PC from it; from within Windows.
(Eventually)Easier said: You can use/test Linux inside a Windows application window (that you can fullscreen as well); if you were about just testing how you like the Linux interface and user experience; as opposed to testing hardware compatibility of your actual PC.
Remark: I quoted the word "emulate" above, as it isn't emulation. It is virtualization. Emulation is eventually a more graspable term though.
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@CozyKoala77
"Thank you so much for your help and taking the time to write so much for my benifit!"
You're most welcome.
"Does that mean anything to you?"
It does. All these components listed should just work. At most likely critical probably is Wifi hardware (and it isn't listed in what you did list). But even that is rather unlikely to cause problems.
If you boot a LiveUSB Linux, you can open a Terminal application, and type:
$ lspci
$ lsusb
These two commands, one after another, display to you any hardware connected to the PCI bus (command 1), and the USB bus (command 2).
If there's anything making issues, with the output displayed by those two commands we can identify what hardware we're dealing with, in your machine.
"Wonder how much this Linuxinfo will need to copy?"
When you download a Linux installation media, it is most likely, depending on distribution you decide to go for, going to be shipped to you as an ISO file (.iso file extension).
Ubuntu ships as a so called hybrid iso. That means that you can burn it to DVD, or "dump" it to USB. If we were to use Win32 Disk imager to create the stick, we create just a "raw dump", a 1:1 copy of the ISO, to the stick; meaning: as large as the ISO file is, as minimum a USB stick GB size you'll need. If the ISO file e.g. is 2.4 GB, you need a minimum 2.4 GB large stick, i.e. a 4 GB large one. If it's 4.2 GB it won't fit onto a 4 GB stick, and you must use a 8 GB large one. You can see how large an ISO file is in the file properties in Windows Explorer (that I personally haven't used in 20 years, LOL, but I am sure it displays the file size).
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