Ubuntu first week

[liv]

Some notes because I want to capture the experience of being a total beginner. I am really touched that anyone at all is bothering to read this, it's very much a logbook and not written for an audience. In this case, please don't give me any advice! I may get stuck and ask for advice, but I want to see how much I can figure out for myself before I get stuck.

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So overall, most things I wanted to do (including at least one fairly complex and non-standard task) have been quite manageable. But I was expecting a lot more looking up the syntax of things to type at a command line, and a lot less clicking on pictures and letting some incomprehensible magic happen. I think I like Ubuntu's incomprehensible magic better than Windows', but at the moment I feel a bit at sea when it comes to installing software. If I happen to find the right thing in the app store, it's almost too easy, but I don't really know where to begin if that doesn't work.

Next steps:

• Desktop display especially font size
  
• Investigate decent word processing / document handling software - maybe Lyx?
  
• Installing fonts that are not present by default. EzraSIL?
  
• Yet more telecoms software. Google Hangouts / Meet? Jitsi (I think this works in browser but I should try it). Discord. Mumble.