Jokes on them I am still on NT4

Any reason to not just use TMUX and Weechat or irssi? I had sessions up for years when I was active in IRC

Lot of just general progress, Linux was so fringe when I started in 2002 compared to now. Most enterprise customers are using Linux the past 15 years and hardware venders are now seeing more and more Linux adoption. We can kind of thank Chrome a bit for that but also more people generally having an interest and using it and developing drivers for their hardware