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He gets away with it because he makes a high quality OS that people want to use. I don't see it as much worse than e.g. using Linux when Torvalds is kind of an asshole.
"kind of an asshole" is a huge understatement. He's said some truly unforgivable things
What unforgivable things has he said?
Here’s a collection of some fun rants he’s had, I personally don’t think they’re unforgivable but people’s tolerance for crash outs varies.
There are many other rants not collected here
https://github.com/corollari/linusrants
There are other reasons to not use Linux, but Linux (+glibc +systemd +libinput...) is basically "the Unix" nowadays...