Webmin is Good :)
I started using Linux at my work and found it to be a very different system, so at home I installed mandrivia and yes I know a very basic distro.
But that helped me get the hang of how in linux you configure stuff, then I installed webmin and found that even more help.
Now I run CentOS 5 and can edit any config file and tail log files and even SCP files home, the best advice I have is to start with a newbie system like mandrivia and work up to a server system like CentOS.