[mtogo]

I've used ubuntu on servers before and it is quite painless. You've inflicted a fair ammount of pain on yourself by running a graphical interface on a server.

As others have stated, spending 15 minutes learning about the linux commandline will save you a ton of time, effort, and pain.

[jasonkester]

The GUI was an attempt to alleviate the pain caused by years of having to poke at Linux boxes through a terminal. As far as I'm concerned, it's still orders of magnitude better than having to type out keyboard commands to navigate around the filesystem.

It's just a shame that the tools to do it remotely aren't up to scratch.

[mtogo]

I assume this is a joke...