I had never owned an Apple product until I purchased my iPhone 4s, after that I was hooked. OSX is so much better than windows.
Before my iMac I had always build my PC's and am very Windows savvy. When I first sat down with my iMac I tried to make my desktop look like my Windows desktop and get things on the Mac familiar to me by trying to make it Windows like.
That did not work at all and I became frustrated because it was different, and it is. I eventually reinstalled OSX and forced myself to learn the PC Apple's way. I kept everything default, learned my way around and only modified settings after I was used to OSX, took about a week. Since then I find Windows cumbersome.
My advise is to approach your Mac with an open mind, play with it and learn it as it is and not try to change it be what your used to (Windows).