When you are in or on the Desktop the Menus in the Top Panel are those of
Unity itself. Clicking on Help there is a fair amount of help. Everyone
needs to go through that. While I feel it falls way short of being a good
help it is better than nothing but barely. It should same a lot of time and
frustration.

To get Synaptic you need to download and install it. The best way to do
that is go to the Launch bar on the left, click the Terminal window and
enter Synaptic. You will be told how to DL and install it.

The System Administration is now the gear overladed with a Crescent wrench
icon.

In the past if there was a restaurant and I didn't like it that restaurant
was in big trouble. Say what you may but I don't like Unity as it is now,