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I personally disagree. OS X, even older versions, is to me worlds ahead of Windows 7/10. I love the menu bar at the top for application-specific menus, the tabbed file manager, Spotlight is the best system-wide search compared to Windows or any third-party Windows tools. Devices like audio interfaces and printers are so much easier to get working than on Windows. The system preferences menu is a lot cleaner and easier to navigate than control panel (you have to enable Small Icons or Large Icons to get to different parts!). I'm very happy with OS X and I hope for the near future they just work on the occasional bugs and improving hardware performance within it.

I will agree that window snapping should be native. Still, the three dots is overall more consistent and visually nicer to me than Windows' min/max/close.

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I think the menu bar at the top served macOS well over the years, but I think menus on the window are a better solution now that multi monitor and high resolution monitors are so common. Having it at the top of your primary monitor just ruins Fitt's law.

It may be because of how I use a computer, but I only use Spotlight as an application launcher. Because it's there I will type stuff in the "Search" box in Finder, expecting to filter on the filename of the current folder--instead it it searches "This Mac" and my results are variable names from open source code I've downloaded. Since it also omits results from System files and preferences, like ~/Library, I often use good old locate in a Terminal.

Windows Control Panel is an unholy mess. macOS' Preference Pane search, as well as searching for menu items under Help inside any app, is a godsend.

> Because it's there I will type stuff in the "Search" box in Finder, expecting to filter on the filename of the current folder--instead it it searches "This Mac"

http://osxdaily.com/2013/03/12/change-finder-search-to-look-...

A neat function of OS X's menu bar is that all menu bars in other displays are slightly greyed out if it's not got the in focus application displayed.

There is a 'Primary Monitor' setting - this determines the window presenting the Dock and can be changed by clicking and dragging the 'menu bar' idiom between windows in the 'Arrangement' tab in the 'Displays' preference pane

> the tabbed file manager

Builds with 'sets' (tabs) have already circulated to Windows Insiders, so it can't be very long until we see them in the stable builds. They even work across apps! https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17318334/windows-10-sets-a...

> Spotlight is the best system-wide search compared to Windows or any third-party Windows tools.

Have you tried Wox? https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox

> Devices like audio interfaces and printers are so much easier to get working than on Windows.

Windows auto-detects network printers. I'm not sure how much easier than that it can get.

> The system preferences menu is a lot cleaner and easier to navigate than control panel

That's why Microsoft made the Settings app. It used to be pretty bare, but has gotten quite functional and fully-featured over time, so I think we're at the point where it's unnecessary to touch the legacy Control Panel anymore.

There are legitimate gripes to be had with Windows (not in the least its data collection), but I don't think most of the ones you listed are the ones.

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