Superiority brings jealousy
Superiority brings jealousy
You can definitely dual boot but you will probably need to shrink your windows partition or install it on a separate drive. Linux can read and write in NTFS format but it shouldn’t be installed on it.
Definitely through USB. I recommend checking out Ventoy for creating USB install media, you can just chuck a bunch of live ISO images of different distros on there to try them and find what you like.
I would definitely recommend trying Ventoy if you haven’t. Instead of flashing one image on your USB stick, it creates a small bootable EFI partition and a storage partition. You can then drop .iso images on the storage partition, and when booting Ventoy from the stick, it scans the isos and shows a simple interface to select which one you want to boot.
This means you can keep multiple installation media and/or tools on the same stick, with management being as simple as adding/removing files, while also being able to use it as storage in a pinch.