Switching from Windows to Linux can be really scary. But if you can survive the first few months the returns are exponential. Here is how I survived.

1. Though I am just an amateur in Linux, I was able to survive the transition and indeed benefitted from it. So these are my notes for somebody facing a similar situation.
2. Pick Ubuntu to start with. Choose other flavours once you know better and can decide for yourself.
3. Get comfortable with following commands ssh, pwd, ls, cd, mv, cp, scp, grep, find, rm . Tip you can use https://tldr.ostera.io/cp to get the list of most frequently used options of these commands.
4. Learn to use the | symbol. Using this you can pass the output of one command as an input to the next command.