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Windows was basically a slapped-together shell with little thought of the people who would be using it.

And yet it does everything I want it to. Guess it was just luck that did this.

I guess what most Mac enthusiasts don't realize is that I don't care to have an "experience" with my PC. I don't want to spend that much time or thought on it. It's a computer not a sexual partner. I just want to plug it in, do what I want and then turn it off again. Of course, for some people that does kind of explain their sexual needs, too. =)

And yet it does everything I want it to. Guess it was just luck that did this.

The difference is that you learned to bend your behavior and train your brain to deal with Windows. Apple bent the OS to deal with your brain. That's why it generally takes less training to get a computer newbie up on an Apple, although slightly more difficult for a Windows user because he has to unlearn his previous compensation.

. I just want to plug it in, do what I want and then turn it off again.

That's exactly what Macs are for. It's mostly Windows people who spend time fiddling with the OS itself.

And yet it does everything I want it to.

I used to think that, too, until I switched to Mac. Then I realized that Apple had thought of some things I didn't know I wanted to do.

Press a key on my computer during start up and turn it into an external hard drive.
Boot from any internal, external (firewire or USB) drive with an OS on it.
See the charge status on my laptop by looking at the color of the LED on the plug.
Check my battery status with the computer off by pressing a button on the battery.
Being able to put an application anywhere on my computer and have it run. Then move it to a different place and still have it run.
Uninstalling a program by dragging it to the trash.
Being able to use slashes, asterisks, question marks, etc. in my file names.
Sliding all my windows out of the way with a keystroke our mouse click.
Installing MS Office by dragging the folder from a CD to a hard drive.
Having each new version of the operating system run faster on the same hardware.
Being able to do screen captures on the second monitor when using extended desktop (try this in XP, you'll find the screen grabs won't work on the secondary monitor, only the primary monitor - at least on all the Dell computers I ever used).
Being able to change resolution and depth on the fly (and, no, XP's implementation isn't on the fly. I'm talking less than a second, not a ten second fade to gray, switch, then fade back to the new depth/resolution).
Reliable laptop sleep and wake, with wake being less than three seconds.

I guess what most Mac enthusiasts don't realize is that I don't care to have an "experience" with my PC. I don't want to spend that much time or thought on it. It's a computer not a sexual partner. I just want to plug it in, do what I want and then turn it off again.

Which is an advantage for the Mac. If you don't spend a lot of time and thought on a Windows box you're likely to end up with a spyware-infested spam zombie.