There's a menu? No, seriously. I've been using Vim for years and I've been recently trying to earn Emacs (and finding the tutorial to be atrociously unhelpful

There's a menu? No, seriously. I've been using Vim for years and I've been recently trying to earn Emacs (and finding the tutorial to be atrociously unhelpful to me in that process), and all this time, I thought the menu was an XEmacs thing. (Sorta like how it is in GVim.) I never really notice the menu bar, and I still don't know how to activate it. Edit: Oh. M-`. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?