98% of non-technical users never need to know what a tar.gz file is. And if they do, it's not complicated. It's just a zip file. People know what that is. Most people don't know what a .bat file is. I guess they can't use windows. Most users don't know what their system32 does or how to use their registry. Why would the average user have to understand /proc? People are already used to the idea of a large number of the files on their system being irrelevant to them.
How are they going to install any Linux distro? They won't be able to create a live disk, or even know what that means.
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