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Start off with Bottles if Wine is too hard. Wine is a cmd line application while Bottles is Wine with a GUI making it easy to manage Wine.
Also, it is wise to try and have a different wine bottle (aka prefix) for each windows application you install and run.
Also Linux Mint is a distro that comes with Cinnamon pre-installed as long you download the Cinnamon option which is a fork of Ubuntu.
Honestly, youtube "basic bash tutorial" and watch/follow along with a video or two. Helped me a bunch.
Tip? It is just a means to an end.
Personally, I think Arch Linux is the best way to learn the command line. It throws you off the deep end and you have to learn things like how to navigate the file system, how to edit files with the command line, and useful tools like partition editors and package managers. If you're serious about learning command line, just go install Arch Linux from the command line.
Otherwise, I think you can learn a lot about the Gui on Ubuntu by just using it. You can run some windows-only apps with WINE or you can start learning how to use Linux-native apps like GIMP, Libre Office, and other various Flatpaks.