I agree that Windows is a hodgepodge, and that it's not really as unified as they'd like to make you believe, and that too much of it is GUI-only without a corresponding command-line equivalent. Mac OS X is much better in this regard, and honestly, Be OS was the best in that regard, I wish it had been successful.

But when I say "feel", I'm not talking about the complexity and difficulty of the various utilities. I mean just the basic movement and response of the mouse and keyboard and UI elements, regardless of which program is running at the time.