Now install synaptic package manager

When you start Tails up the first screen you see will give you the option of adding a persistence password. This enables you to use an encrypted section of your thumb drive to save your settings and favorite programs (and/or files) so they will be ready for you next time you start Tails. The persistence password should be long and hard to guess, since that's the one an attacker would have to guess to get to your storage. Most security experts no longer recommend long gibberish passwords like "hosdi58943##$$#IF" because those are hard to remember. Instead use a pass phrase such as "dogs and cats living together" since that's a lot easier to remember, yet hard to guess. Now lets hit that plus sign on the bottom there and add an "Administrative Password." Two passwords?? Yes a second password. The persistence password lets you into your personalized version of Tails. The Administrative Password is how you identify yourself to the OS as El Jefe. You are giving yourself permission to run programs as an administrator. This is the password you are going to use to wake your screen up and any time you want to install a program. This password can be short and convenient. Something like "banana." Now start tails and learn how to install additional programs. What programs might you want to install? Glad you asked! The first program you should install is the Synaptic Package Manager which can be found in the system tools section of the Apps menu. The synaptic package manager is like the app store for Tails. When you click on it the system will ask for your administrative password, and then it will give you a list of all of the updates that have come out for your version of Tails, since you downloaded it. Hit "apply" to download and install the upgrades, bringing your version of Tails OS to it's fully upgraded and current version. Now to download your first optional program. Knowing you, you'd probably prefer a better video player such as vlc to the basic "Celluloid Multimedia Player" that comes with Tails. All you have to do is go up to the "search" magnifying glass (top of synaptic package manager) and type in "vlc." You will get a long list of search results of every program either named vlc or compatible with vlc. Go back and search again, but this time just for the name of the program. This list of search results is much shorter. Click on the one that says "vlc" and mark for installation. You will see that the package manager has marked all of the necessary files needed to run vlc. Now click apply to install vlc player. Note the popup message that asks you if you want to install vlc into persistent storage (on your thumb drive) so you can have it every time you boot Tails up, or the other option is "just this once" and it will not be installed next time you boot Tails up. Now you can open any kind of video file by right clicking on the icon and select "open with vlc." What if you want to install a program on Tails that isn't included in the Synaptic Package Manager? You can do that! For example Tails OS does not include a very good file archive application, but you can go to duckduckgo and search up "peazip" and once you find the peazip website click on the download for Linux" options and download the one called portable gt k2. Double click on the downloaded file until you see the program icon peazip. Double click on the downloaded file icon (in your downloads folder) and now you have the ability to open any kind of archive. No matter if you add persistence or extra programs to Tails or not, you must be aware of the biggest known vulnerability to people using the tor browser: javascript exploits. Javascript it a normal part of almost every website, so the tor browser keeps javascript enabled by default. As long as you are just visiting normal websites that's probably fine, but if you start exploring the dark web and exploring links to unfamiliar communities, you are in danger of pulling up a seemingly normal website, but in the background a javascript exploit is causing your computer to go around the tor network and "ping" your computer's IP address. You don't want to risk that, so click on the shield icon at the top of the tor browser and switch your security level from "standard" to "safest." Good luck and if you don't remember this it's all good. We can keep checking back as you gain experience with Tails and once you get more comfortable and relaxed with it we can try again later if you want to. Happy private surfing!