Alan, you need to pick a distribution (there are hundreds), then download the CD or DVD image and burn it to disk. Most distributions these days come as "live" CDs. You can boot the CD and run Linux off the CD just to give it a test drive, or you can do a full installation. Since the live CD only has the minimum packages, you'll download additional packages once the initial installation is complete.
The most popular desktop distributions seem to be Ubuntu and its derivative Mint. Ubuntu is itself a derivative of Debian. Fedora is another popular distribution; I've used it and its ancestor Red Had for about fifteen years. SuSE is a popular German distribution. You can check out more distributions at DistroWatch.
It is helpful but not necessary to have a Linux-knowledgeable friend help you with your first installation. It's also helpful if you have a little UNIX knowledge, as there are some differences that will trip you up. For example, directory path names are separated by forward slashes rather than the backslash used by DOS/Windows. Also, there are no drive letters. Rather, there is a root directory "/" and everything is "mounted" to it. The user is shielded from most of the UNIX idiosyncrasies by the graphical user interface.
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