Of course different platforms get sometime to get used as is with every other device on the market, but I find myself researching issues and playing around a lot in the control panel whenever I am in Windows. I hardly remember a time when I went to System Preferences to fix something, usually just to alter settings to my liking.
Believe me, I was doing the same thing when it came to learning OS 9 & OS X in 2001, luckily I had this website and forum then to help otherwise I would have been lost. It was much harder finding help online with issues on a Mac back then than windows. Now having a very good grasp and spending a long time using both neither one is easier to use than the other. There are somethings on a Mac that just don't make sense and things on windows that don't either. I will say at least it is easier to find help with a windows problem online when you have one than it is for a mac problem just because the amount of people using windows is enormous.