You keep saying this, but in my recent experience, postgres had been fantastically easy to get up and running on both Windows and Linux (debian and ubuntu to be

You keep saying this, but in my recent experience, postgres had been fantastically easy to get up and running on both Windows and Linux (debian and ubuntu to be precise. don't know about Mac). So this argument only applies possibly to its distant past. It's simply not relevant now. It's worth keeping an open mind.