Running Linux with desktop

Is there any downside to running a Linux distro with a gui desktop? If some of us beginners are not 100% comfortable in a command line only environment, it could help with the transition.

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Your server won't have a GUI desktop :)

Your development/staging environment should be as close to your production environment as possible, hence keeping it as a non-GUI Linux server. You can enable the GUI display of it in Vagrant if you want/need to.
kennethlove (Staff) on
That's true, but we're deploying with Heroku which takes most of the sys-admin stuff out of the equation, right? It's just as easy to manage Heroku from a GUI desktop. Am I missing something?
Brian Yee on