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by no_wizard 1017 days ago
>many PC users

I'd say most, even software engineers.

Can't tell you how many times I've had to explain how environmental variables work to developers, and that's a pretty simple concept compared to many other things in an operating system.

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Most people cut their teeth on Windows, where the system environment bars are just a basically a section of the registry.