I still think the Windows 7 UI was one of the best desktop UXs made to date... Windows 10 is less annoying with the stupid web search disabled. WTF would an application with a start menu entry not come up before a web searched term, ruins the UI... At least Unity does/did better on that.

With it disabled, my workflow is mostly the same.. apps I use the most are pinned to the dock/taskbar, and anything else I hit the meta/super/win key, then type what I want and hit enter. It pretty much works everywhere (except osx).