That's the another problem potential contributors face: Assumptions that because someone is not technical, they can't meaningfully contribute to a project. Dismissal of plain users feedback because "they don't know what they are talking about".

Unless you're creating OSS tools for e.g. developers, your final users are probably not as technical as yourself - so you might want to hear feedback from people that actually has to use your tool.

(Sorry, this is not really directed at you and I'm not picking on you, I don't know you at all! :) Your comment just reminded me of what I describe above)

Agree with @flukus. I didn't put anything about pre-requisites because I didn't want to drive anyone away. Anybody seeing these things for the first time can just google it and learn right?

For some people, it takes quite a while to learn to be comfortable with the command line.

Some open sourcerers use Windows and Visual Studio and Sourcetree. No cmd needed!

Everyone has to start some place.