Don't worry I'm European and 90% of developers I know think exactly like you (and me). It's just that the HN crowd is typically North American, and people tend to like what they have grown with.
That all being said, for me a non Windows desktop at work has become a requirement. If an employer would force me to use Windows I would most probably ask for much more money or more likely leave for another company.
I haven't seen that many macs outside design departments in any big European company I have visited.
Some big companies such as Sony actually have Linux as their first choice, windows second.
I know this sounds silly or wrong, but most dont think of those as "Tech" Companies. Modern world uses of "Tech" now mostly means Software.
I think you are living in a bubble.
I am not, considering I am the only defending 5G and Ericsson on HN. But you should say that to the rest of HN.
Software companies do skew extremely into Mac territory, I really don't recall anyone ever using a Windows machine and very few run their ThinkPads with Linux, the vast majority have a Mac as a daily driver.
In fact our Java folks get macbooks as option, and eventually many of whom end up migrating to ThinkPads with Red-Hat/Windows, when starting to deal with complex workloads.
On the .NET teams everyone is on Windows ThinkPads.
I suspect you’re in a self selected bubble. Which you sort of allude to by saying “developers you know”, but I don’t see how that extrapolates to the continent as a whole.
That is why parent post called mac 'counter intuitive'.