[mlatu]

not sure how that clashes with anything... and wasnt arguing for blindly following tutorials in the first place so i'll just skip over that (albeit very valid) point...

> Basic settings [...] should not be poweruser setting/feature needing workarounds and external downloads

yes.

> windows anti malware is excelent at protection

it can only be as good as its heuristics. generally speaking: antivirus is snake oil. i think instead of wasting more and more processing on detecting malware the user downloaded, users should be taught to use their machines properly. you dont expect a child to drive a car, and yet even more complex footguns seem fair game. and a child could easily do alot of (financial) damage with a computer.

> I don't want to compile anything for my OS.

that's fair. i wrote "you could". i mostly meant the capability. the actual work could be and usually is delegated to trustworthy users. (read "trustworthy" either from your pov or of the dev of the original application, if that person already is... uh... malwaring you, all this is moot of course. (also assuming a "good" dev who checks pull requests))