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I find the window management to be pretty terrible. I guess this is trying to bridge the beginner distro gap between Windows and Ubuntu, because I couldn't see anyone seriously using it for very long. Then again I felt the same way about GNOME3, so maybe I'm not in the majority there.

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Zorin is a desktop designed to bridge Windows to Gnome 3, and does a better job of it than Pantheon.

And I'd argue KDE has a nearly identical UX to Windows in the first place. You can even get Windows-8-lite with Homerun. So if you want a fluid transition KDE is probably the best choice, as long as you don't overwhelm them with options (start menu, task bar, system tray, min / max / close in top right, have at it champ).

I actually find window management not that bad, it's similar to OS X in that matter.

I can't disagree with you there, but my MBP does mostly sit gathering dust unless I really need OSX for something. Different strokes.

It is pretty impressive how much they've been able to pull together in their desktop environment and custom applications.

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