Or is that more of a stereotype, and there are some (maybe more?) out there using some form of graphical interfaces/web dashboards/etc.?
It’s struck me as interesting how when you look up info about managing servers that they primarily go through command-line interfaces/terminals/etc. It’s made me wonder how much of that’s preference and how much of it’s an absence of graphical interfaces.
I work all day with Kubernetes, remote servers, web applications and stuff like that. We’re usually trying to conserve resources for the actual apps we run — it wouldn’t make any sense to install an entire GUI / desktop OS on these things.
At home I manage my router, server, NAS almost exclusively from the terminal. There’s just no reason to use a GUI. GUI kind of sucks, you have to move your hand away from the keyboard to point and click, it’s far more constrained and for the most part it only serves as a wrapper to more advanced functionality.