its old, archaic, and extremelly inconvenient thing - using this 'command line', typing command on black screen, etc- bad thing..
so you are a real GUI person, then i think you are in the wrong forum / interests. the most powerful programs are written for the commandline, so if you do not like it, then i'm afraid you might miss a lot of powerful tools....

also commandline (textbased) programs are faster then GUI programs, it is more logical to use and most of them are freeware...

i prefer commandline above gui at almost any time (except browser).

ftp would be my choice too, although i sometimes use SmartFtp as well if i need to upload complete directory structures at once...