I thought it would be easy on windows but was baffled how bad the instructions on the python website are. The getting started guide still caters for windows xp

I thought it would be easy on windows but was baffled how bad the instructions on the python website are. The getting started guide still caters for windows xp and choosing py2 vs py3 is still considered a good decision for beginners. 1. browse to python.org 2. get confused whether to choose python 2.7 or 3.6 3. get confused wheter to choose gzipped sourced tarbal, XZ zipped source tarbal, embeddable zip file x86-64, embeddable executable installer x86-64, embeddable web installer x86-64, and then repeat all those options for x86. T___T 4. open installable, press next a few times. Last time i did this there were some confusing options to select there also, like wheter to use %APPDATA%, add to PATH or not. On linux: sudo apt install python3