Simply put – you’ve got to realize a couple things: 1- Linux is not Windows. 2- Use Linux like a brand new type of software you never heard about – do not make any pre-assumptions. 3- Use Google to search for the most simple things, including “How do I install something on (Linux distro name you’ve chosen)”? 4- Have some patience – you won’t learn (everything) on day one. There will be mistakes, there will be problems you will not solve em today. But you will solve em tomorrow. And here’s a little “cheat sheet” of mine on how to use (and get used with) linux: 1- Get used how to use the package manager. (Where you will search and install stuff.) 2- Learn what are your audio and graphic packages (The “drivers”) are. (See 3- above.) 3- Learn how to run the stuff you installed. 4- Learn how you configure the distro to your liking. Learn all these four steps, and you can consider yourself a linux “pro” user.

Guess I must be an alien then. (That’s ‘pure’ sway – no toolbars, icons… nothing. I use my own dmenu-esque app to run binaries.)