> some unique that if you can't find a UX experience on Linux that is acceptable then the problem isn't Linux, but it might be you!
Nice way to welcome outsiders into the GNU/Linux world, then don't complain non-geeks don't feel welcome.
I use GNU/Linux since Slackware 2.0 and have used quite a lot of UI managers, probably all the most known ones.
My remark of UI/UX was from the point of view of someone that also does it, creating software for people that want to know as little as possible from computers, regarding their actual work.
Game and graphics programming - fair point.
Nice buttons, assuming you mean that row of lights and so on that laptop designers seem to love, always just work for me. Volume, wi-fi, etc work. What doesn't work is the "open a calculator" type button, but I could fix that with a bit of customizing key bindings. As it's so easy to open the "everything finder" in the DE I use ( Moshka/E17) it is easier than reaching for those off-keyboard buttons.
Maybe you need to distro hop a bit more?!