Readme, docs: recommend init command instead of start-mcp-server

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@@ -65,24 +65,22 @@ After installing the plugin, you need to configure Serena to use it.
**Central Configuration**.
If you ever executed Serena before, you will have the global Serena configuration file located at `~/.serena/serena_config.yml`
(`%USERPROFILE%\.serena\serena_config.yml` on Windows).
If the configuration file does not exist, run
You can run
```shell
uvx -p 3.13 --from git+https://github.com/oraios/serena serena start-mcp-server
uvx -p 3.13 --from git+https://github.com/oraios/serena serena init -b JetBrains
```
(see [running Serena](020_running.md) for alternative options) to install all dependencies and create configuration files. Terminate the server with `Ctrl+C` after it has started.
to set the default code intelligence backend to JetBrains in the global Serena configuration file.
In your configuration, change the `language_backend` setting as follows:
Alternatively, you can also manually edit the configuration file `~/.serena/serena_config.yml`
(`%USERPROFILE%\.serena\serena_config.yml` on Windows) and set
```yaml
language_backend: JetBrains
```
*Note*: you can also use the button `Edit Global Serena Config` in the Serena MCP dashboard to open the config file in your default editor.
Note that the file might not exist yet if you never executed Serena before.
**Per-Instance Configuration**.
The configuration setting in the global config file can be overridden on a