Because it’s not how the project is designed. How is it designed? Refer to the following concepts:
- Whonix is based on Kicksecure
- Whonix is based on Debian
- Self Support First Policy for Whonix
- Potential Solutions Beyond Whonix!
- Free Support for Whonix
- Utilize Search Engines, Documentation and AI
- Linux User Experience versus Commercial Operating Systems
Don’t.
Cannot make everybody happy.
I am not convinced this change password thing is a big deal. One cannot be an absolute beginner and at the same time password change a big deal.
With how the documentation is structured now, many people can perform a wide array of tasks.
The goal is to help users help themselves, as it is infeasible to provide detailed, free support for an ever-growing number of users.
So, understanding the above concepts (the links that I posted) is essential.
Those refusing to study above concepts are not the target audience.
Quote Whonix Documentation
This documentation is a crash course in anonymity and security on the Internet. Whonix is a technological means to anonymity, but staying safe necessitates complete behavioral change; it is a complex problem without an easy solution. The more you know, the safer you can be.
Viewpoints such as:
- “I refuse to leave the Whonix website”,
- “I demand a unified experience from Whonix and the Whonix website”,
- “I refuse to read the wiki and demand detailed step-by-step guidance in the forums for free”,
are fundamentally incompatible with that.
The least technically skilled user is not the target audience. That’s how the project developed. It wasn’t the goal from the start to serve the least technically skilled user.
The least technically skilled user will likely be incapable to see what’s the point of Whonix.
If we wanted to target the least technically skilled user, then support for other virtualizers such as KVM, Qubes would have to be rejected because documentation such as this:
Platform specific.
Select your platform.
- VirtualBox
- KVM
- Qubes
Because when laymen are reading that, they’re like “What’s that?” The more confusion and obstacles there are, the more likely laymen will give up.
On top of this, each supported virtualizer will result in a lot of content on third-party websites discussing these. Any video about Whonix KVM or Qubes-Whonix can confuse a laymen, make them discard the idea.
Even the Whonix split-VM architecture (Whonix-Gateway + Whonix-Workstation) is detrimental to laymen adoption.
Helping more technical users (through providing documentation to do more complicated things) is also detrimental to laymen adoption, because it bloats documentation and search engine results.
Instead, the development direction and documentation of Whonix and target audience was influenced by its contributors (through source code and documentation contributions) and users (through questions in forums which then lead to changes in source code and/or documentation).
This is the target audience that will be continued to be served. A huge change in direction, focusing on the least technically skilled user is not planned. Related:
- DRAFT: Whonix Community Survey: Shaping the Future of Whonix
- Whonix Community Survey: Shaping the Future of Whonix
If someone wanted to serve the least technically skilled user, they could consider to software fork Whonix, re-brand it, scrap documentation and features and focus on maintaining a more minimal and simple version.