Allow me to dig up an old fossil to continue the circlejerking:
I find the Mac vs PC debate often pretty tedious. They’re for different types of people, looking for different things in their computers.
Some things are just better on the Mac. For example, this:
is better than this.
Why? Because the menu bar on the Mac allows you to be lazy: you can just move your mouse up the top very quickly. Much easier than carefully controlling your mouse to a moving target. (This is a problem with the Dock on OS X)
So, all in all, the Mac just works better. This is why so many Apple fans are so bitter about Microsoft “winning” the Mac—PC war. The better-designed product lost.
Er… you mean like this?
There’s been a shortcut to settings (usually through the Control Panel) on the Start menu of every Windows machine I’ve used by default. And if there isn’t, it’s not too difficult to add it.
I think you’re missing something.
I mean, I get it if you don’t know where that stuff is, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It took me ages to find out where any of that stuff was my first time using a Mac (the mouse tracking speed is excruciating by default and even at max it’s still painfully slow).
I don’t see how a menu in the top left corner of a display is any less discoverable than a menu in the bottom left.