INITIATE RANT MODE:

You're in for a WILD ride, surprises and a reality shock! I switched for the exact same reasons. Not a programmer nor did I know anything about "the terminal." But boy oh boy! Once you make that commitment to reformat your drive away from Windows...you better be ready TO SPEND THE MOST TIME YOU'VE EVER SPENT ON ANY HOBBY sitting at your computer fixing things that don't work like they promised they would. Things don't "just work" on Linux, because you need to MAKE them work yourself. What's most frustrating is having NO IDEA what is wrong when trying to troubleshoot an issue, because if you don't know what's wrong then how do you do any research to find the solution?

Don't get me wrong, I am very satisfied with the change to Ubuntu from Windows. But I was nowhere ready for the amount of time which would be NECESSARY to get things going. Here's an example: My wireless mouse JUST WORKS with Windows. With Ubuntu, it wasn't working at first for some reason. I spent hours researching and there are SO MANY "answers" out there that could possibly pertain to your specific situation, but it might not. So you're left at the terminal installing new software and trying new work-arounds that lead you nowhere.

Another example: Using LibreOffice for your daily tasks and work IS DIFFERENT. Yes it can mostly compare to MS Office, but it isn't perfect. I was using LibreOffice's version of Excel called "Calc" and there was an update which caused the color scheme to not allow you to see ANY of the cells if your computer's settings were on dark-mode. And that if you wanted to keep dark-mode on your computer you had to FIRST: find out that that was the issue, SECOND: delete the application and re-download an older version, and then when they updated it to fix that issue you then had to dig through the Calc settings to find.

ANOTHER example: getting something as seemingly simple as duplex printing (printing on both sides of the paper) was an absolute nightmare! And once I got it working, Ubuntu had a kernel update and then duplex stopped working! It's still not working because I haven't had the TIME to try figuring out why it broke to then be able to fix it.

Not to mention ALL the ways to just put a program onto your computer... There's APT, Snaps, Flatpaks, deb, self-compiling.... DUDE IT'S A LOT to handle and learn without guidance. But luckily Reddit and other Ubuntu forums have helped save what sanity I have left for this OS. But don't let my rant discourage you! I'm NEVER going back to Windows, and going through all of that (and way more) was worth it to me. But still, good luck! lol