Windows has the same shitty tastes. Graphic design is very poor on many versions of Windows, namely those accessible to students and others not running the latest version on the latest hardware. Mac has had beautiful design that is visually clean for years, but windows has been cluttered and frustrating.
I agree Windows desktop isn't much better visually but Windows Phone was very orderly, clean, fast even on potato phones, and had an astounding idle battery life.
It's an OS ruined by lack of developer interest which was caused by no small amount of mistakes from Microsoft. But it has (had) a very solid foundation.
