Server 2012 isn’t much better.
Drop the GUI, go to Core, and manage the thing with PowerShell. You'll feel better.
Mind you, the razzing the Winders geeks got from the Unix dweebs when that CLI popped up was pretty good. Some things are easier with a little GUI - IIS admin, for example - but yeah, it looks like a blast from the past.
I'm getting sucked back to Linux admin and I gotta tellya there's a little rust here. What the heck, it pays.
Windows Server 2012's developmental codename was "Windows Server 8". Clue?