There’s a bit more too them than that. I use Windows (3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP begrudgingly, 7, 8.1, and 10), Linux (starting back in the days before Mandrake got weird all the way through now), and Mac (System 7, System 9, and OS X). For day to day use, I’m happiest with Mac OS X but I’m closer to an expert on the Windows platform.
What’s really really nice about Mac over Linux is … Apple actually cares about and studies user experience. I can step into the terminal and run bash like any proper modern *NIX system when I need or want to use a command line but the rest of it just gets out of my way and lets me do what I needed or wanted to do. The key combinations make more sense and usually apply more evenly across applications. The trackpad gestures are brilliant. Heck, I thought I hated trackpads until I bought my first Mac. It’s such a step up in experience I don’t connect a mouse unless I’m doing some graphic design work.
I built a Windows 10 PC last year. It’s a lot better than it used to be. The OS install process was as close to painless as it’s ever been for Windows. I still have my complaints but Microsoft is trying and, privacy concerns aside, Windows 10 is a nice solid entry.
On the Linux end, it’s the same business it’s always been. Still the same fights over sound subsystems and wireless drivers for several-years-old mainstream enterprise model laptops. Still GUIs hand crafted in the fires of mount Gnome. I use Linux to host webservers etc. in my house. If I was going to set up a kiosk for public use, I’d do it on a Raspberry Pi with a heavily modified Jessie install.
But for my every day writing, graphic design, web development, surfing the internet, etc. needs, Linux is not the OS I want to be using.
Bringing it back around to nostalgia, I don’t miss anything in the Windows end newer than Windows 2000. Getting a copy of Weezer’s Buddy Holly with every new computer was pretty neat at the time. I’m glad I had my late 90s, early 2000s experiences with Linux but I don’t feel any nostalgia over them at all. I wouldn’t mind having a System 7 Mac sitting around to play the old HyperCard game, Scarab of Ra. I miss my already-ancient-when-I-inherited-it Commodore 128 some days. 
Oh, and I really really miss WordPerfect 6.1.
