Thanks for the reply Trinidad. I decided to run Linux Lite because I liked the GUI and it ran really well on my hardware. I'd used Linux Mint for hosting for around 8 years and that is primarily a desktop OS as well so figured I'd give LL a try. I didn't know that Webmin would be tricky to setup on it at that time.
Webmin isn't an app per se, it runs it's own http server (perl based I believe) in which you can interface with the OS. It does run on LL, it's just that many of the modules don't install automatically like they do on Ubuntu / Mint. I may try out some of those alternatives in the link you sent to see how they run.
Cheers!