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I agree with you, however: People have no fear changing things in regedit or 10 layers deep in the control panel to make windows more like it was "before".
Linux us just unfamiliar. That makes it more scary. So having tutorials like this makes it more accessible.
Very few people do that
I did. Tbh I think there’s plenty of other people who do too. Once you’re comfy in an environment, you stick to it until you have enough reason to switch. And you’ll inevitably become a power-user if you solve enough problems, tinker enough, etc.
Yeah, the majority downloads a random program to do it for them from some website. Which might or might not do what it advertised, sometimes even without installing a lot of trash ranging from ads to viruses...
I do that with every Windows iteration. There's usually a step by step guide with 10 instructions with pictures.
Unraid tutorials have been like download this app, be sure theres no conflicting ports with your docker container, you need to add this pathway. Wtf is a port or docker? I get it now after 40+ hours of research and going 4 pages deep in a Google search but none of the tutorials are dumbed down enough for the average Windows users.
I wonder if more people dive deep in the control panel than there are users of Linux. I bet there are and maybe even more that are willing to use regedit than there are Linux users.