Microsoft fonts, trash and weather

Gnome was seeking in Microsoft style to 'dumb' down names.
Microsoft Money
Microsoft Word
Most application names do not name what the application does simply because simple self-describing names are few and applications are many.
Spotify
Clementine

Nautilus is still named Nautilus. But it is labeled "Files" in the app menu instead of Nautilus. The hope being that people would locate it easier.
Nemo is a fork of Nautilus.
If running them from terminal, you must use the name, not the label

nautilus

nemo

To install MS Fonts & multimedia codecs (type in terminal):
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

I was today years old when I learned Arial was a Microsoft font (I was surprised since it's the default one on Google Docs).

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