Just a fwiw, this might be worth a look at . . . the Ubuntu -

- community documentation page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community which starts a hierarchy of high-level categorized menu pages. The broad simply-worded categories with progressive drill-down might facilitate more/better newbie usage. The sub-pages seem to be written with new, English-as-second-language, users in mind. Again, just fwiw . . .