I've heard of that alternative of using an external HD. It might be a good way to test out the system and familiarize myself with its functions, features etc before deciding to fully run it on the device. I'll first have to get a good HD for that, don't know if there's a dedicated HD for such stuffs or an average one will also get the job done.
Monday night is almost here lol, hopefully you'll figure it out before then :)
I got a Sandisk external solid state drive it wasn’t too expensive, I think they run around 80 or 90$, which is really affordable for SSD. It’s a 1 terabyte and it had good reviews plus it’s pretty compact so it’s efficient in terms of space.
You’ll need unetbootin software, that’s a really helpful piece and there’s one other I can’t recall now but they basically help you get it on the drive and then set it up so that it will run there instead of wiping your hard drive.
The cool thing about Zorin is you can “try” it for a while to get familiar. It’s very similar to windows with the layout and stuff. I spent about 45 minutes clicking around it before going back and that’s when I realized I was fucked lol I couldn’t go back.