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You could just have a UI that runs you through all the questions and prompts from Windows and then reboots and installs a new OS without any other interaction.
You could even have it ask which files/folders the user wants to transfer over so they don't lose everything.
You can do that without Windows. What is the benefit?
It's trivial to make a USB bootable installer.
It's trivial for you.
The average windows user has no idea what "Rufus" is, or how to enter the bios and change the boot priority
Especialy nowadays with "features" like fast boot that removes the "press f# to access bios" prompt on startup to "speed-up the boot process"... Hell even when disabled (both OS and BIOS wide) some computers won't ever show me the damn thing anyway.