Imitation is definitely not the way to go. I have the same problems using Windows and OS X because I'm so ingrained into the Linux desktop that I find it really painful to make quick hacks to OS X to get it working the way I want (OS X might give a more polished "out of the box" experience, but it's also less flexible should you want anything even just subtly different to Apple's vision of the world).

And Windows is just Windows. I don't think there has ever been a commercial platform released that even comes close to how terrible Windows (throughout it's numerous iterations) is.