This chapter gave you just a brief introduction to GNOME. Fortunately, GNOME comes with extensive user documentation, including a short Introduction to GNOME, comprehensive GNOME User Guide, and on-line help for almost all GNOME applications. The easiest way to access this help is to use the Help tab of Nautilus (see Nautilus: GNOME's File Manager), which lists all of these documents conveniently organized by subject.
Unfortunately, Nautilus can be slow on older systems. In this case, you can use instead an older GNOME Help Browser. To launch it, choose
-> -> (you can recognize it by the question mark icon). It provides less features than Nautilus (for example, it can only show an alphabetical list of documents, not a subject one), but is much faster.Both Nautilus and the GNOME Help Browser allow you to read documentation for non-GNOME applications, such as man pages and info pages. The standard documentation format for command-line applications comes in the form of Man pages. They are usually very detailed but rather technical. Info pages are the documentation format used by utilities from the GNU project, such as (arguably) the most powerful text editor ever created, Emacs.
Finally, if your computer is connected to the Internet, you can also find a wealth of information about GNOME on the web. Point your web browser to the GNOME web site and explore!
That's all for our GNOME tour. The only way to master GNOME is to read, practice, read, practice, read... You understand :-)