Whenever you're ready, there's no rush. There's no deadline. There's no obligation. I just think it has the potential to be a valuable perspective that's worth sharing with a wider audience.
Not many of us regulars are 'new' to Linux. Even fewer would be interested in writing a veritable essay on the subject. You just seem to fit the bill nicely and I've long wanted someone who can perform such a feat.
I've been tempted to try to write it myself, but I can't trust my own mindset, and the 'new' experiences are long dulled by time and actual experience. While I have a large period of time with Windows in my background, I also have chunks of time with Unix experience. Moving to Linux as soon as I realistically could was just the obvious course.
The only caution I have is that I wasn't an average user of Windows. Probably more intermediate. I poked around a lot in the system settings. I made changes to IP settings, network settings, disabled settings in Windows update from the Command Shell...
To give you a related example:
My Samsung phone was close to bricked after the last UI update. I did a lot research on the problem at a lot of places, including the Samsung website. I tried every single tutorial to fix it on my own. After I exhausted all of those options, I contacted Samsung via chat.
I really don't like chat because I have to go through all of their questions, all the fixes that I already tried before I can finally tell them what's going on, in bits and pieces. I'm sure they're used to people who contact them before trying or even looking for a fix. They probably get things like "My phone isn't working", "won't ring"...
Now when I contact anyone via chat, I write everything I think they need to know in notepad. The very first thing I write is
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST I lay out exactly what happened and what I've tried to do on my own. I copy and paste it into the chat window. After the guy at Samsung read it, he didn't ask a single question. He set up an appointment for me to take my phone into an authorized repair place.
Most people don't do that sort of thing or know 1/2 as much as I do about Windows. My friends call on me to fix their problems. Believe me, I've seen some problems! I compare Linux to Windows in terms of the things I know about Windows. I may not know yet how to do those things, but I'm not afraid to find out and try it myself.
I actually know people who are scared to install security software from a disk. That boggles my mind. I don't think I could relate to someone like that.