My first language is English, and from the screenshots in the TrueOS handbook I'd also agree that it looks a little dated (although not particularly more so than most other open source desktop environments).
>> Polish is probably what you're missing then.
> My first language is English,
Did you just mix up polish, as in "polished ui", with Polish, the language of Poland?
Yes.
Hopefully he doesn't also think that a totem pole is a guy from Poland who looks after a totem. :-)