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My bet would be that you are working with the Linux version of Emacs. That's indeed a lot less problematic and more performant too. Under macOS and Windows, the situation is not that rosy and since ppl want familiarity, they typically mix in something like Spacemacs, Doom Emacs, etc into the mixture. For a long time they would probably won't even hear about Prelude or if they do, they would not even assume that's a preset system for Emacs. I've seen this happening to a couple of ppl already just in the past 2-3 years.