I think you should load Oracle's VirtualBox onto the NUC and then experiment with different OS's.

I run VirtualBox under Windows 7 and have Windows XP, Windows 7, DOS 6.2, OS/2 Warp v4.5, Raspberry Pi (Denbian/Jessie) and ReactOS VM's. 

OK, so I'm stuck with Windows 7 as the host OS (could be worse, it could be Windows 10!) but I can try different OS's and run any I need for specific applications (my XP VM is because my DIP software is only 16-bit so won't load into Windows 7). ReactOS is what I'm hoping to replace Windows 10 with on my netbook. And I loaded OS/2 Warp....simply because I could (and I have a set of original disks).