Converting an ex-Win GNUbie; advice/links?

[Guido Heumann]

Cybe R. Wizard schrieb:
> A friend across the world (Perth/Bunbury, AU) is considering finally
> trying, per my advice, a Linux.  Still per advice, he has chosen Ubuntu.
> Besides the web site, forum, and this list, are there any ex-Win
> GNUbie-specific links that any of you recommend?  He is particularly
> daunted more by the "alphabet soup" of Linux programs' names, not so
> much at the differing terminology.
> 
> Cybe R. Wizard

Perhaps you could point him to
http://gnu.ramix.org/win-lin-soft.html

It's a page listing linux equivalents of popular windows software.

HTH,
Guido