Windows has 0-100 volume sliders if you like that better.
They are still some kind of faux-logarithmic*
*behavior depends on drivers/hardware.**
**for some hardware 50 in Windows will be neutral and 100 will be something like a +30 dB digital gain, that's probably in part because Windows is mapping the 0-100 range in some way to the USB audio control range, which is at most +-127 dB or something like that.***
***with some audio interfaces (the non-USB-Audio-class kind) the 0-100 actually becomes a linear factor of 0-1, making the windows controls very useless indeed, as 70% of the slider range does approximately nothing.
Projecting in that context means you claimed what other people think/do, because it's what you think/do. It's about describing the conscious choices of others (where my experience disagrees for example) not about decibels specifically.
You're just projecting your ideas here. I've not made that choice, it's just the only option in a lot of software - I'd like my % slider back.