I understand the usefulness of the terminal and how universal it is for troubleshooting across distros. But can’t there be a way to make a nice graphical tool for the various admin level tasks that need to be performed?

  • I always recommend opensuse for ex-windows admins because it’s stable, long term version (don’t need to move to a rolling model that tends to confuse people), but most importantly YaST. It’s a big ol do everything GUI for managing the system