[userbinator]

That is certainly true of the more recent versions, but at least there has historically been a far bigger wealth of information about tweaking and modifying Windows than any version of MacOS, no doubt discovered through experimentation and reverse-engineering. On the other hand, Apple and its user's philosophy has always leaned towards the "don't look, don't touch, just use it as we made it" direction.

Linux and the BSDs are traditionally far in the other direction: extreme flexibility and customisability, but you really do have to configure things before you can start working. Windows is somewhere in the middle but (IMHO unfortunately) moving towards the Mac side.