I wanted to agree, but then they just had to add a load of bullshit invalidating everything else.

You can't tell me that Linux isn't easy in this day when the biggest hurdle is just the installation; that Windows is well designed (better than Linux, which isn't really an apples to apples comparison, there's so many distros, many of which are surely better than it anyway) when it very clearly isn't, not only by being hostile to the user, but the layers of paint they have to stack on top of each other every major release because, god forbid, their enterprise users are gonna freak out if you rewrite the core apps from scratch and give them a coherent experience. Microsoft is a monopoly and acts like it, if you have the occasion to move away from it, then it's the best decision you can make.

All that said, telling people to move to Linux when they ask a specific OS related question is stupid and doesn't help the person in need. Give them the answer they're looking for and let them figure out for themselves if the whole OS they're using is bad and if they should switch out.