To me the superiority of the windows GUI isn&#x27;t really beauty or consistency (which with Windows 10 is basically gone, you have three styles in the same OS - Win 8, Win 7 and Win XP). And Windows has many other rough GUI edges.<p>To me the real superiority of the windows GUI is that almost all of the settings are accessible with a GUI. In Linux or MacOX you very quickly end up having to write some command lines or editing a text file. That&#x27;s great for already experienced users or administrators running batches. But to the common user, discoverability and intuitiveness is crucial and you are not helping them with an OS they can&#x27;t understand or control. One should be able to visually see the state of the system.<p>If CLI had auto-complete&#x2F;intellisense features, the gap would be smaller.