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IMHO the Mac offers many more and superior methods of burning CDs and DVDs than Windows where the whole process is usually excessively clumsy, technical and slow.
At the very least you can set up in OSX a "burn" folder in the sidebar to which you add material, which does not actually move from its real location. You can freely sort out the contents of the burn folder and when you are ready then burn your physical disc.
Toast has many advantages however, with an enormous range of formatting and presentation options.
Disk Utility will also do the job of burning but also creating virtual images such as compressed .dmgs that only require double clicking to mount on your desktop and act like real disks. This is the standard way of supplying installers on the Mac.
My best tip is not to look backwards when migrating, these are indeed greener pastures and Windows will soon be a fading bad memory.
A friend of mine spontaneously converted after years of my commiserating with his problems. In fact the entire family switched even his PC die-hard architect daughter. They are all gushing over the experience and whilst I expected him to see problems in the change, because it is different, he doesn't view it that way at all. Just asks the occasional question when he doesn't know where something is.
Just as you have.
