I got that help from my local Linux Users Group [LUG], which was full of the nicest and most knowledgable people I've ever met. For an excellent list of local Linux Users Groups compiled by the fine folks at Linux Journal, please click here.

If you're not close to any of the listed groups, there's plenty of Linux help available online. A good place to start looking for it is this site.

You may also want to check out different pre-packaged Linux distributions. There's a whole bunch of them out there. I use Red Hat Linux myself, but I also like Linux Mandrake and Caldera's latest Open Linux, both of which are a breeze to install and set up, even for first-time Linux users.

TurboLinux, S.u.S.E., Debian, and Slackware are popular and well-regarded Linux distributions too, but they take a little more knowledge to figure out than the first three I mentioned.

Macintosh users have their own Linux distribution: MkLinux. Learn all about it here.

And, of course, my own tutorials list is getting bigger and better every week, so it's a fine place to look for all kinds of Linux information. In fact, if you spot an exceptionally useful online Linux manual, "How To" document or tutorial that I should list, please tell me about it here. You don't have to fill in all the information on the form, just the URL and a couple of words of description, and I'll take it from there.