Many of these people(including myself) have Windows and are offering guidance based on their experience with Windows. Their advise is well intentioned, but misguided.
The game has changed a lot in the last couple years and many of the guides will be for older versions of the game. The guide I provided is the most up to date guide(v0.5.25) provided by a MacOS user who spent a lot of time troubleshooting his guide. Thus, the previous version of his guide was included in the help section of the mod system for the bugfix patch. He makes no mention of ".strive2", so I am strongly inclined to believe that it does not exist by that name anymore.