I felt the exact same way, still do, but I bought a new drive and installed Linux Mint on it (it's the most Windows like experience I've found). I kept my old windows drive just in case, but I haven't needed it so far.
The only time I ever used something that wasn't Windows was DOS when I was very little.
It's definitely overwhelming when trying to get certain things working that aren't natively supported, but thankfully those are few and far between. There's also a lot of people in the Linux community that are passionate about it, and tend to be very helpful.
You can always download what I think is called a live distro, and run it off a thumb drive just to test the waters. Nothing you change will be kept though, and it will be sluggish comparatively.
While I don't have any sources I trust, I have seen a few YouTube videos talking about countries like Mexico, Italy, South Korea, Philippines, and France (not in that order), not renewing contracts for wheat with the US, and instead making contracts with Canadian sources.