You can easily make Linux feel like whatever you want, if you are willing to put a bit of setup work in up front. If you are going with the default desktop set

You can easily make Linux feel like whatever you want, if you are willing to put a bit of setup work in up front. If you are going with the default desktop setup, it's not surprising it doesn't feel like it's really enough for you: most distros' default options are there to make it easy for people who don't know what they want yet.