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Bingo, perfect analogy. The "clubiness" aspect is far more the real rationale for most users than anything else, and that has long been the case.
As a bone to the Linux squad, while Manjoo is out of his gourd and appears to have been unmasked as an incompetent buffoon via this puff piece, you guys are even more right than the Windows crowd. Linux users get the best of all worlds--cheapest and best hardware, and stable operating system that's owned by the world at large, not some avaricious megacorporation. The smug satisfaction that MacOS devotees love to exhibit makes me laugh when you consider just how superior Linux is on every conceivable level, both in practice and in spirit.
