A novice user will not even find the config file, or the place to store it in. Because for reasons of antiquated tradition, Linux still uses this concept of dot

A novice user will not even find the config file, or the place to store it in. Because for reasons of antiquated tradition, Linux still uses this concept of dot-files and -directories, and redshift's config is somewhere in ".config". So if a beginner user uses, say, GEdit to create that config file, and then wants to save it... they will probably end up staring blankly at their home folder contents in the GEdit file save dialog, searching for this ".config" folder, not finding it.