A Modern Alternative to Abstract Factory Filtered Dependencies

I've mentioned before that I really don’t like the Abstract Factory pattern, and in particular, code like this:

static IGUIFactory CreateOsSpecificFactory()
 {
    string sysType = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["OS_TYPE"];
    if (sysType == "Win") 
    {
        return new WindowsFactory();
    } 
    else 
    {
        return new MacFactory();
  }
}

One of the comments mentioned that this might not be ideal, but it is still better than: