> Creating/changing Linux files from Windows will likely result in data corruption and/or damage your Linux environment requiring you to uninstall & reinstall your distro!
It's funny, that this is so Windows-centered advice (regarding the "uninstall & reinstall"). Fixing things in Windows very often boils down to "just do the reinstall".
In Linux you have lots of other tools and methods to recover from such disaster.
Well, if you're so inclined, you can re-create the NTFS extended attributes on the file you broke and things should be back to normal. However, the article is for people who clearly don't know what they're doing, or what they broke and how, so I think giving the »Have you tried turning it off and on again« advice is just about right for those folks.
And even on Windows you can fix most issues in different ways than reinstalling, it's just that for some degrees of brokenness it's by far the faster solution (cf. just re-cloning a git repository instead of figuring out what is broken).
It's funny, that this is so Windows-centered advice (regarding the "uninstall & reinstall"). Fixing things in Windows very often boils down to "just do the reinstall". In Linux you have lots of other tools and methods to recover from such disaster.