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Neil 8f832502ae docs(linux): fix install ordering, CLI verification, and serve bootstrap
Readiness review found ten defects. Two would have had a reader run the wrong
program, and one would have had them install a .deb over a live app.

Install ordering was reversed. The page said "run it, then quit and reopen
Orca"; the ref this is gated to land with says the opposite in four places
(linux-package-downloaded-status.ts LINUX_PACKAGE_MANUAL_INSTALL_MESSAGE,
"Quit Orca before running the system package install command", plus the
recovery card's title, summary and explainer). That wording came from main's
older run-then-quit card, which the stack deliberately reversed when it
retitled the card to "Manual Install Required". Now: quit first.

CLI verification put the Linux caveat *below* `command -v orca`. That check
succeeds on any GNOME desktop and resolves to the screen reader, so the reader
got a confident hit from the page's own verification step and then invoked the
wrong program. Caveat moved above, and the block now spells `orca-ide`
literally instead of asking the reader to substitute.

The serve bootstrap was circular: the bare-`orca` dispatcher is written *during*
serve startup (main-process-runtime-launch.ts), so it can never be the command
that starts serve. First launch is `orca-ide serve`. Fixed here and in the two
pages this links to.

Accuracy: the install command now matches what the code emits -- absolute paths
resolved from the trusted directories and a POSIX-single-quoted package path,
as pinned by linux-package-install-command.test.ts -- and names the manager
fallbacks (dpkg; zypper/dnf/yum/rpm) rather than presenting apt as the only
form. The pending path honours XDG_CACHE_HOME. rpm arch tokens are x86_64 and
aarch64, not deb's amd64/arm64. arm64 AppImage is linked. Dropped the container
example: isExternallyManagedLinuxInstall() needs a root marker AND no trusted
package manager, and a Debian-based container has apt, so it is not flagged.
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