> My experience is that Windows has far better UX for pretty most end users.
UPDATE: After seeing a reply to this comment, I googled some screenshots. It seems that Macs normally do display a hint for the shortcut to delete files. I'm not sure why mine doesn't.
Windows is also more learnable. On Mac at least today you're just supposed to know stuff. The most basic operation: deleting files. Seems like an operation you'd like to speed up with a shortcut, since you're going to be doing a lot of that with your computer. Mac has hints in its menus about shortcuts for different actions, just like Windows. However, they're hardly ever there. That sounds a bit contradictory, but mind the quantifiers. The selection of which actions have hints about their shortcuts is completely arbitrary. It's completely disconnected from the potential frequency of use, and the hints that are there are far and few between. So, back to deleting files: this is not hinted in the menu. You can select this action with the mouse, but come on, going to the menu, finding this action and clicking it is a ridiculously slow process for such a common operation. Dragging files to the trash bin is only marginally better. It has a shortcut, it's just that macOS won't tell you what this shortcut is. This is insider knowledge. And then you google it, and find that it's "Cmd+Delete". So you press that... and it doesn't work. Because on macOS Delete is Backspace and Delete is Reverse Delete.
Also, it's a theme that what requires a single keypress or two on Windows, on macOS requires a convoluted chord making you look like Axl Rose playing solo of November Rain. I mean, look at the shortcuts to take screenshots: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361> Wat??? 1. Who thought that would be easy to remember? 2. Who thought that would be easy to press?
Finder tells you the keyboard shortcut to Delete a file in the menu. Most every menu item on macOS that has a keyboard shortcut exposes it in this way through the menu, which is one nice feature that macOS has that Windows doesn’t have, but could have.
Yep, it's cmd-backspace, which is unfortunately cumbersome, but it works and it's easy enough to remember.
That said, how the menu items appear always baffles me. Want to search for a file by name? Hit Ctrl-Shift-Command-F. How did I discover this? Open the menu and start banging different modifier keys till "Find" turns into "Find by Name..." I'm sure this behavior is as old as Macs, but it's an odd quirk, one that I still stumble over from time to time.
It is a bit odd that it doesn't appear in the right-click context menu, but yes - I love the menubar consistency in OSX. That plus the search field in the "help" menu is amazing, every OS would benefit from mimicking it.
UPDATE: After seeing a reply to this comment, I googled some screenshots. It seems that Macs normally do display a hint for the shortcut to delete files. I'm not sure why mine doesn't.
Windows is also more learnable. On Mac at least today you're just supposed to know stuff. The most basic operation: deleting files. Seems like an operation you'd like to speed up with a shortcut, since you're going to be doing a lot of that with your computer. Mac has hints in its menus about shortcuts for different actions, just like Windows. However, they're hardly ever there. That sounds a bit contradictory, but mind the quantifiers. The selection of which actions have hints about their shortcuts is completely arbitrary. It's completely disconnected from the potential frequency of use, and the hints that are there are far and few between. So, back to deleting files: this is not hinted in the menu. You can select this action with the mouse, but come on, going to the menu, finding this action and clicking it is a ridiculously slow process for such a common operation. Dragging files to the trash bin is only marginally better. It has a shortcut, it's just that macOS won't tell you what this shortcut is. This is insider knowledge. And then you google it, and find that it's "Cmd+Delete". So you press that... and it doesn't work. Because on macOS Delete is Backspace and Delete is Reverse Delete.
Also, it's a theme that what requires a single keypress or two on Windows, on macOS requires a convoluted chord making you look like Axl Rose playing solo of November Rain. I mean, look at the shortcuts to take screenshots: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361> Wat??? 1. Who thought that would be easy to remember? 2. Who thought that would be easy to press?