Right.
So now that we have tills installed and we learned how to boot into it and this lecture, I want to
give you a basic overview on this operating system.
So first of all, on the top here we have the status bar.
On the top left we have the applications menu, which contains a number of application categories nicely
in terms of what they can be used for and the favorites you have your programs that you'll probably
be using most of the time.
We have the Tor browser, which we already know what it is and what it can be used for.
We have Thunderbird, which is an email client.
We have Pidgin, which is an instant messenger that can be configured to not keep any traces of you.
We have a password manager and we have a terminal which we can use to run Linux commands.
You can actually go through all of these and get familiar with all of the offered programs on the Internet.
Here again, we have some of the programs that I just showed you.
We also have Electron, which is a Bitcoin wallet.
You have office programs, labor office that you can use instead of Microsoft Office Word.
You have media programs and all the usual stuff that you see on different operating systems.
Now, don't worry about all of the strange programs that you don't know in here.
We will be using a lot of them as we go through the course.
So right now, I'm just giving you a basic overview of the whole operating system.
That's why I'm not going to be running any of them.
Beside the applications we have the Places menu, which will allow you to access different folders in
your file system.
So as you can see, if we click on the home, we will actually get a file manager in the home directory.
As you can see in here, you'll get to this exact location if you just double click the home icon in
here.
So again, as you can see here, we have a number of files similar to what you get with Windows.
So we have documents, downloads, music, pictures and so on.
Again, you can access each of these directories individually by going to places and just clicking on
the directory that you want to access.
Now it goes without saying.
You can also navigate to this through this menu.
You can double click a directory to open it and double click a file to execute it or to open it with
its default program.
Right click to create new directory to copy and paste to get properties.
So it's all intuitive and it's all very, very similar to what you get with other operating systems.
Now another really cool feature with tales is the fact that it supports multiple desktops.
So right now we have a workspace right here, and let's say this workspace gets cluttered with a lot
of applications, a lot of open windows.
So let's open another window, for example, on documents.
And let's say you already you also have a browser and you want to do more stuff than you can actually
press control, alt and down to go to a new workspace.
And right here I have an empty workspace which I can do more work in.
So again, I can go to places and open something else here and I can do some work.
For example, I can have my web browser in here and then control alt up to go to the first workspace.
This one with the windows already open in here.
Not only that, but you can also press the Windows button or the left command and se on OS x.
This will reveal the activity menu which will first of all show you the open windows in the current
workspace.
It will also show you the available workspaces here on the right so I can click in here to go to the
second workspace where I had my music open again.
Click on this one to go to the first one and then click on the last one to go to the last workspace.
So instead of pressing control, alt up and down, you can navigate through the workspaces like this.
And also you can see the running applications.
Not only that, but you can also see your favorite applications in here and a nice dock on the left.
And you can press on this icon right here to get a list of all the applications installed on tables.
So right here we have all of the other applications that we were navigating to through the applications
menu.
And if you can't find your application here or if you want to access it quickly, you can literally
just type its name using the keyboard.
So if I just type tore, it will bring me all of the applications that have the water in them.
So this is really, really handy.
Again, this is the activity view and you can access this by pressing the Windows button on Windows
computers or the right cmd and SE on OS X computers.
I'm going to press escape to exit this and we're back at the main desktop.
Now, I think this is enough for this lecture.
In the next lecture, I'll continue covering the basics of tails.
I'll show you how to see the notifications, how to edit the preferences, how to connect to networks
and so on.