If you do not like reading manuals (who does?) and would like to give Recoll a try, just perform installation and start the recoll user interface, which will index your home directory and let you search it right after.
Do not do this if your home has a huge number of documents and you do not want to wait or are very short on disk space. In this case, you may want to edit the configuration file first to restrict the indexed area.
Also be aware that you will need to install the appropriate supporting applications for document types that need them (for example antiword for ms-word files), and that the default character set used to read raw text files for indexing is iso8859-1, which may not be appropriate for you.