Greetings everyone, I'm glad I can come to this site to ask questions but is there a command line manual I can read to learn how to use the commands?

I don't want to be redundant and ask the same questions if they are already in a manual

I don't know much about Linux and want to make the switch from windows.

I would like to know what hardware I have and how to configure them.

I also have some software for windows that I need to run in Linux, I guess I have to use WINE for that.
The first time I saw WINE mentioned for Linux I thought it was a database for a wine collection

I am running Kubuntu with KDE I think.

Thanks for all the help.

Here's a guide for the commandline..

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

Well as mentioned tldp.org is the one of the best places for information.

If you even need help with the syntax of a command try reading man <command>.

To get a list of your hardware type in the following in a terminal like rxvt, gnome terminal, or konsole
this will return information about all connected hardware. for your applications that you want to install under wine, check their database to see if it will work. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...Ascending=true

gottaLearnLINUx:

Queried: "Greetings everyone, I'm glad I can come to this site to ask questions but is there a command line manual I can read to learn how to use the commands?"

Clue:
Yes there is a command line manual, in the terminal (cli) just enter:

user@host-$: man <here specify what command you want to learn usage> <Enter>

Sample: user@host-$: man ls
<here the manual for "ls" command will show, use arrow keys to scroll, press "q" to exit.
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Queried: "I also have some software for windows that I need to run in Linux, I guess I have to use WINE for that.
The first time I saw WINE mentioned for Linux I thought it was a database for a wine collection "

Thoughts:
Yes you can run them through Wine. Download wine here.

Btw, Wine [wine=Wine Is Not Emulator] and it is not a database. You can satisfy your curiousity at the website linked above.

Hope it helps.

Good luck.

See also http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz & http://linux.die.net/man/