A quick experience with Mac

It was after I had been using Windows for a while, someone had been telling me about Macs and how easy they were to use.  Intuitive and user-friendly.  I don't remember when it was but it was in the very late 90's or just after 2000, but I remember sitting down to a Mac that had just been booted up.  It didn't really have any icons other than a hard drive and no menus (this was before the dock).  I double-clicked on the hard drive.  For some reason, it opened up kind of small.  I double-clicked on the bar across the top to open the window all the way.  However, that just made it disappear.  That was weird.

Then I opened it again, I tried to resize the window by going to the sides or corners.  I think I must have tried every side and every corner but the lower right.  So I thought,  "You can't resize windows?  That's dumb."  I figured that something is intuitive and user-friendly if you KNOW how to use it already.  But because it wasn't doing anything that seemed intuitive and user-friendly within Windows, I gave up.  I probably left the Mac running because I couldn't figure out how to turn it off.  I never looked at another Mac for probably 9-10 years.

I came so close to what I now love just because it wasn't what I expected.