Select your region, so Mint can set your clock accordingly.
Here’s a picture of Linux Mint Cinnamon running in a virtual machine on Windows 7. Applications like games might not run or only run poorly. There’s a limit to this though: there’s no full acceleration from your graphics card inside a virtual machine. You can use them to try out different Linux operating systems without the need to remove your actual Windows installation.
These containers are called virtual machines. VirtualBox is a program that allows you to install other operating systems in a safe container on your computer and run them like applications in a window.