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As @Sharmat@beehaw.org pointed out, you don't need to dive into the terminal right away. As long you stick to the more user-friendly distros, you should be able to get on board fairly quickly and easily. Also, as @ezri@beehaw.org pointed out, Google is your friend!
That said, if you want to dive into the terminal, read on! I spoiler tagged it so it doesn't overwhelm you or anyone in the same boat. Just click on the arrow or "The dive!" to expand it ๐
The dive!
System76, the group behind Pop!_OS does have documentation on using the OS: https://support.system76.com/#learnBut for using the commandline in general, there are a number of resources out there from books to courses. I'll list some but I can't really vouch for them.
Digging through my early days of playing around in Linux distros, I remember
man -K <keyword>(capitalK, lowercasekdoes something different) was helpful to me.man -Kbasically let you search for a command based on whatever keyword you put in. Although the controls for it when you get multiple results is a bit...obtuse. Make sure you read the bottom line, usually they tell you what different keys will do.