Help manual: note pyscard precompiled wheels + C++ Build Tools fallback

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 		<li><strong>Python 3.8+</strong> with <code class="font-mono text-sm">pip</code></li>
 		<li><strong>Git</strong></li>
 		<li><strong>Smart card reader</strong> (PC/SC or serial/FTDI). PC/SC is preferable; on Linux it requires <code class="font-mono text-sm">pcsc-lite</code> + <code class="font-mono text-sm">ccid</code></li>
+		<li><strong>Windows only</strong> — <code class="font-mono text-sm">pyscard</code> (the PC/SC driver wrapper) is installed from precompiled PyPI wheels, so no compiler is normally needed. Microsoft C++ Build Tools (&ldquo;Desktop development with C++&rdquo;) are only required if pip falls back to a source build (e.g. unsupported Python version).</li>
 	</ul>

 	<h3 id="quickstart-linux" class="text-lg font-medium mb-2">7.2 Quick start — Linux / macOS</h3>