[RndTbl] Ubuntu desktop vs server.

Hi. I'm honing to sound like a total noob here but please have patience I'm trying like hell to catch up. Lol. I'm about to setup Rsync to transfer files to a backup machine. So I'm looking around the internet for people's best practices and opinions. I'm noticing that many of the admins are doing things in a combo of GUI in desktop and cmd line opposed to strictly cmd line in server. I'm from the Windows world and I think that having a point and click environment would help me move quicker. Can you guys tell me why I wouldn't want to use Ubuntu desktop? Or is there a better desktop to use for admin tasks? Thanks in advance. Justin.