 <p>What Vinegar says - just install it and play ;). But if it's really all that new to you it might be a good idea to install linux in <a href="http://virtualbox.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VirtualBox</a> or vmware. This way you won't break anything on your computer if you'll make mistake during installation and you can always save 'clean' installed system as snapshot and easily come back to that 'clean' state by reverting to snapshot.</p> <p>For reading... i just recommend man pages. You can access them from console or online, for example <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. When you aren't sure how to use some command - read its man page.</p>