Re: Tutorial clarify

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> New and wanted to follow getting started docs but it seems it was written
> for Unix. Would be nice if you built out the getting started docs for more
> than Unix. whatever, no one probs reads this anymore. to the void you go!
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Maybe 1% of the content is OS-specific and those pieces seem easily
translatable to Windows as it's basically just writing a different path.
I'm not sure we'd turn down a patch that aimed to make things either more
OS-agnostic or more OS-inclusive but yeah, we've current made the choice to
keep things simple and just choose a single shell framework, the most
common one, moreso now that WSL exists, to write in.

Frankly, I find it unlikely a Windows user is going to appreciate any
command line based tutorial; but we are not going to go and write one for
the official documentation that covers using a third-party graphical user
interface as the client tool of choice. Those third-parties, or the
broader community, are expected to cater to that need if it exists.

David J.