I know this post might not belong here, sorry if that's the case, but I wanted to share this anyway.

I am a developer and work in IT, the company I work at is pretty toxic like most startups.

Today, while I was at work, a coworker called me and wanted to learn about the project I'm working on, so I shared my screen and he immediately noticed that I am not using Windows (most of them are).

He started telling me in a condescending tone "You don't use Windows? You only work on Linux?", which I answered by saying "Yes".

He continued being condescending "You don't use a graphical user interface?", I told him what he's seeing is graphical (I use sway on Arch), and showed him how tiling WMs work.

He said something like "Only nutters use that thing." and other nasty things, I told him there's no need to be condescending and that I wouldn't put him down for being a Windows user.

I took this to my bosses and they were like "He's just kidding! We say that a lot here! Culture shock!", which isn't surprising. I told my bosses "I'm here for work, not to be belittled, if it's going to continue I'll quit".

This isn't the first time this kind of thing happens, and I'm observing a trend, every workplace has these kind of people that will put down someone for being different or using Linux.

Has it happened to any of you? I'm sick of it.