Community-created Simple User Guide

[adw]

@deeplow

@adw generally tries to avoid documenting other projects (like XFCE).

Correct. Explanation: Redirecting…

@ninavizz

Thought: I did poke around the docs to see if I could find anything on this, and I could not. Between this and the Whisker Menu stuff, and the potential to clearly identify everything on the Qubes desktop environment (eg: how most non-tech and non-CLI users will experience Qubes) for people new to Linux… it seems like the docs could use a “Navigating Qubes” or “Desktop Environment” section in the docs, to introduce all of the key widgets and how to customize things? aka, stuff that’s probably too obvious for Linux folks to think anybody else might need help with, hehe. @HackerNCoder am I correct that there is currently no such section to support non-Linux-native folks in orienting us to Linux desktop environments (and maybe also some basic Linux concepts, like what “a distro” is)?

All of this stuff absolutely should be documented, just not in the core Qubes docs. However, we can certainly link to it from the core Qubes docs.

For example, if you use any search engine to search for “what is a linux distro,” I’m sure you’ll find many instructive pages.

Please actually do read this and don’t make me copy/paste it into this thread.