I've always found the TLDP (http://www.tldp.org/) a good place to search for howtos on different issues. <br>May be it would help you too.<br><b><i></i></b><br>I didn't read something about the competence level, but I think it should be distinguiished between beginners and advanced users.<br><br>Even a beginner should know some basic stuff about computers and the way they work - it always helps.<br><br>As about KDE it is a desktop as every other desktop and it has a good documentation. So once you are familiar working with files and different programs it shouldn't be a problem to switch to KDE. The nice thing here is that you have much more features, applications etc for free compared to distributions like MacOS or WindowsOS.<br><br>So my advice to anyone who starts is to start with:<br>1) basic computer knowledge,<br>2) operating system knowledge,<br>3) graphical user interface (i.e. X windows) knowledge,<br>4) desktop knowledge,<br>5) application knowledge.<br><br>The
questions at each level are:<br>a) what are the basic components<br>b) how they work<br>c) how you can configure them<br>d) how you can make them work for you <br><br>I find it useful to take the problem oriented approach. It means if something is not working, or you don't know how it works, then investigate this issue.<br><br>I also like books (hard copy books), so I can recommend O'Raily series. It is not a comercial, I just like their books.<br>Actually I started with 2 books about linux and unix. The linux one was from O'Reily and the unix one from the university I was studying at. Later I bought few other O'Raily books and was not disappointed.<br><br>Hope this helps you.<br><br>Best regards<br><br><br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left:
5px;"><sf2rio@yahoo.com><gnome@hawaii.rr.com><kde-linux@kde.org><givemesugarr@gmail.com><kde-linux@kde.org><d257c3560805150605q21172a94tc06fef20ada277ef@mail.gmail.com><gnome@hawaii.rr.com><br>well, i've found google, the various wikis and the forums to be much more<br>instructive than any book. at least for 80-90% of the stuff one needs. also<br>books tend to put inside a lot of stuff that is more or less useless so that<br>to put more pages and to have the cost levitated.<br>some examples are:<br><br>http://wiki.kde.org/<br><br>http://www.kde-forum.org/<br></gnome@hawaii.rr.com></d257c3560805150605q21172a94tc06fef20ada277ef@mail.gmail.com></kde-linux@kde.org></givemesugarr@gmail.com></kde-linux@kde.org></gnome@hawaii.rr.com></sf2rio@yahoo.com></blockquote><br><BR><BR><p>