if you understand why someone might have a disinclination to participate in reddit, twitter, facebook, etc. because you don't want to support a shitty company's platform (that you don't even want to use) with your own authorship effort and emotional energy, then you also understand part of the disinclination of libre software developers to invest the frankly ridiculous amount of effort it takes to make their usually-gratis passion project work well on microsoft platforms.
even if it's where the people are.