i am trying to install moodle the last version Moodle 4.4.2,and everything except the database ,he keeps telling me that i should change mysqli to mariadb in the config.php file,i have mysql installed with the xampp on my pc and i dont have mariadb and i don’t want to use it and i have no idea he keeps showing me this error !
can anyone please suggest me a solution i am stuck for two days now !! 🙁

i tried to do as the msg says and changed mysqli to mariadb and installed maria db but it didnt work maybe due to a configuration problem but please dont tell me switch to mariadb i want to keep using mysql for the project