diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e387a3b53..32395f74e 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,17 @@ Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client
 Getting started
 ===============
 
-Electrum itself is pure Python, and so are most of the required dependencies.
+(*If you've come here looking to simply run Electrum,* `you may download it here`_.)
+
+.. _you may download it here: https://electrum.org/#download
+
+Electrum itself is pure Python, and so are most of the required dependencies,
+but not everything. The following sections describe how to run from source, but here
+is a TL;DR::
+
+    sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-0
+    python3 -m pip install --user .[gui,crypto]
+
 
 Not pure-python dependencies
 ----------------------------
@@ -35,7 +45,7 @@ If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies::
 
     sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
 
-For elliptic curve operations, libsecp256k1 is a required dependency::
+For elliptic curve operations, `libsecp256k1`_ is a required dependency::
 
     sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-0
 
@@ -44,13 +54,20 @@ libsecp256k1 yourself::
 
     ./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh
 
-Due to the need for fast symmetric ciphers, either one of :code:`pycryptodomex`
-or :code:`cryptography` is required. Install from your package manager
+Due to the need for fast symmetric ciphers, either one of `pycryptodomex`_
+or `cryptography`_ is required. Install from your package manager
 (or from pip)::
 
     sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography
 
 
+If you would like hardware wallet support, see `this`_.
+
+.. _libsecp256k1: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1
+.. _pycryptodomex: https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome
+.. _cryptography: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography
+.. _this: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/hardware-linux.rst
+
 Running from tar.gz
 -------------------
 
@@ -69,13 +86,9 @@ You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::
 This will download and install the Python dependencies used by
 Electrum instead of using the 'packages' directory.
 
-If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files
-before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development
-version".
 
-
-Development version
--------------------
+Development version (git clone)
+-------------------------------
 
 Check out the code from GitHub::