That's true.
On one hand, there are often ways to change the settings to make things more like how they were on Windows,
On the other hand, sometimes there's a good reason for it to be different, so I always try to check why it's different before changing it. An example is some window managers putting the taskbar panel at the top of the screen or on the side instead of the bottom (top panel is more convenient with a mouse, side panel takes up less space on a wide/landscape screen).