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 The all-new Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Learn more at https://spring.io/tools.
 
+## Getting started
+
+### Installation
+
+Depending on your development environment, you can choose between:
+
+- __Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution:__ a ready-to-use distribution of the latest Eclipse Desktop IDE, prepackaged with Spring Tools 4 and a few additional third-party extensions. Download, unpack, and start.
+- __Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse extensions:__ you can install the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse into an existing Eclipse Desktop IDE installation and use it from there.
+- __Visual Studio Code:__ We provide extensions for Visual Studio Code if you prefer this lightweight editor for your development.
+- __Eclipse Theia:__ You can install the same extensions into Theia-based environments like gitpod.
+
+For all those choices, you can find detailed installation instructions from the user guide:
+https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Installation
+
+## User documentation
+
+The project wiki contains a comprehensive user documentation:
+https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki
+
+## Ask questions
+
+Please ask general questions on StackOverflow and tag them with `spring-tools-4`:
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=spring-tools-4
+
+## Raise an issue
+
+Please raise issues by creating a new GitHub issue at:
+https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues
+
+## Contributing
+
+Find details about how to contribute:
+https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.adoc
+
 ### Code of Conduct
 
 This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant [code of