That is one thing I miss about windows, even after years not using it I can find stuff. And no matter what program I have used on windows I have had no issues with the font or GUI (might be ugly but it works).
Every distro I have tried the design, lay out, name of setting/option/etc are all just different and look a bit dated. Windows and iOS looks good and is consistent throughout.
Why Ubuntu and all its flavours can't put their heads together and come up with some guidelines, I do not know. Yes I know it is all open source, GNU and all that jazz but to help the development and expansion of linux it would be great if there was some similarity and guides.
Linux is still a tinkers OS, which I do like to do with my computers. Ubuntu and Debian is getting close to the install - give it a name, user name and enter WiFi details - and forget. I was very surprised how fast and easy it was to install win 8.1 (if you ignore all the junk that the hardware vendors like to add and all the nag screens) when I tried about a year ago.