It may be my fault, but I feel that Linux (Ubuntu to be precise) has become admin-hostile. 

Take for example networking. 20 years ago, a newbie would spend hours, maybe days, to understand how interfaces, ips, subnets, firewall rules work. But then, it would be trivial to set up and troubleshoot your machine. 

Today, the same guy, after having lived a lifetime in Linux, can't find the way to change the nameservers on a Ubuntu VPS, or his Raspberry Pi.

Is there a any Linux distribution out there, that doesn't try to make a user's life "simple", and expects that users work in the command line and not the GUI?

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I think Arch Linux is what you are looking for.
it's pretty much the most DIY distro out there so yeah.

I can hear the Arch mladies breathing heavily as they run to their computers lol

People use the Ubuntu GUI??!!

(I'm command line only on Linux...this is good barometer read of where things are heading)