> Some kind of tech hipsterism drives this. But a lot of these proponents were just suffering under inferior tech.

Well put. futuraperdita put it well in his reply, too.

According to said hipsters, the underdog is always superior, and *THEY* who use the "popular" tech are just too corrupt/stupid to realize it. No, the superior technology doesn't always win. But *every single time*?!?

I have been 100% Microsoft-free at home for 30 years. I write this on a MacBook connected via mosh and tmux to several Linux boxes. But I do not believe, and have never believed, that the teeming masses that use Windows are being deprived, are stupid or deluded, or were swindled, bamboozled, conned, misled, fooled, or deceived into choosing such over Linux or MacOS.