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docs: refine the Quickstart Part 1 launch-workspace guide#26752

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Summary

Refines Quickstart Part 1 (Launch your first workspace) with friction fixes from a top-down review pass plus content updates. Content-only; no manifest or structural changes.

Changes

  • Find the setup page: consolidate the end-of-step-2 guidance into one paragraph and convert the browser-warning bullet to a > [!NOTE].
  • Continue with GitHub: clarify that it replaces creating an admin account manually.
  • Container runtime: generalize the template-creation note from "Docker" to a running container runtime, tied back to Step 1.
  • Template naming: keep the required quickstart name (later parts of the series depend on it), but stop prescribing a display name and description that drift from the template defaults.
  • What's happening behind the scenes?: add an expandable under the Step 4 "What just happened?" that explains Coder's Terraform provisioning and links the architecture doc.
  • Colima socket: soften the macOS socket claim in Step 1 and add a troubleshooting step that points DOCKER_HOST at Colima's socket (a real failure hit during the review pass).

Stacked on #26712

launch-workspace.md is introduced by #26712, so this PR targets that branch. It will be retargeted to main after #26712 merges.

Out of scope (tracked separately)

  • Screenshot refreshes (create-template.png and the admin-user screenshot) are updated manually.
  • Adding the Colima DOCKER_HOST guidance to the broader install and troubleshooting docs.

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Apply review friction fixes and content updates to
docs/tutorials/quickstart/launch-workspace.md:

- Convert the browser-warning bullet to a note and consolidate the
  end-of-step-2 guidance for finding the setup page.
- Generalize the template-creation note from "Docker" to a container
  runtime, tied back to Step 1.
- Generalize the template naming step: keep the required `quickstart`
  name, but stop prescribing a display name and description that drift
  from the template defaults.
- Add a "What's happening behind the scenes?" expandable that explains
  Coder's Terraform provisioning and links the architecture doc.
- Document the Colima socket fix: soften the macOS socket claim in
  Step 1 and add a troubleshooting step that sets DOCKER_HOST to
  Colima's socket.
- Clarify that Continue with GitHub replaces creating an admin account
  manually.

Screenshot refreshes are tracked separately.

Filed via Coder Agents on Nick's behalf.

Refs: DOCS-380
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Closing in favor of #26712. Per maintainer direction, these Quickstart Part 1 edits and a code-fence sweep are folded into #26712 (commit b92242d) rather than shipped as a stacked PR.

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