Some Linux users like a black box with no adornments whatsoever, but the majority of us appreciate some user interface elements, particularly if they make the less common operations easy to discover.
We like customisability in this area of computer use, and this should consist of facilities to alter the broad strokes such as the colour theme and the font size, along with, ideally, the ability to alter at least the foreground and background colours, and being able to redefine every colour from within the configuration interface. An extra point if visual tweaks