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I'm interested on trying Linux, but I honestly don't know Where to begin or which "version" is better for me
Games are not a problem for me as I don't care much (at all) about them
To try out Linux you should install Linux Mint, or Ubuntu. If you search on Google there are a lot of guides made to help you choose between the two.
There are a lot more distributions than those two but they’re not tailored for beginners because they offer too much freedom, and you don’t have the experience to account for the mistakes you could make.
+1 to Mint for beginners, but I'd rather go Debian (stable) than Ubuntu tbh. It's quite straightforward and I don't think new guys would have a lot of issues with it.
Or you can wait till the next time you're buying a new laptop/desktop and buy one from Systems76:
https://system76.com/
They come with Pop!OS pre-installed, and everything (including drivers) will just work like you'd expect in Windows.
Just start out with Linux Mint and don't overthink the problem. If you need to move on from Mint to something else, you always can, but Mint was created just for your use case.