And even better, you can just go into system preferences and turn off what you don't want! At one point I had a newish version of OS X spotlight pared down to

And even better, you can just go into system preferences and turn off what you don't want! At one point I had a newish version of OS X spotlight pared down to be about as functional as the Windows 7 start menu Search. If I had wanted command-space to be closer in feature parity to a Windows 10 start menu, it's approximately five reasonably intuitive mouse clicks to get to the settings prefpane with those checkboxes. I too have yet to find similarly well made functionality from any other major-ish desktop OS.