Now that Windows and Mac got bad enough, and Linux got good enough, it's no longer always 100% quackenbarkers to say "switch to Linux" to ordinary minor grievances, so those people had to go somewhere.

I've never had any problems installing a browser on Windows. What's the problem? You run the installer and it installs itself in seconds, and the browser periodically updates itself on its own without having to figure out any dependency headaches.

I was equating "switch to nix" as the new "switch to linux".

That's like saying "emacs is a heavy and expensive tool for editing a text file".

It's like saying get a new car because the floor mats got dirty, and emacs is in fact a heavy and expensive life change just to edit a text file.

Sure: if you don't spend thousands of hours editing text files, learning emacs would make for an expensive investment. It's a tool for the right use-case.

I spend thousands of hours using computers, especially Linux. Most of my waking weekday hours. Many of us on HN do.