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The job of a old style Linux admin has been superseded by infrastructure engineering and GitOps. You write automation to deploy and maintain thousands of VMs.
You'll be lucky if there are actual VMs.
in today's world I think you have to get in as a Windows System admin and then change your role by demonstrating how the Linux solution would be better for whatever the priority task at hand is
Not even sure of my chances at that these days. There are very few opportunities where I live too.
Got a few Linux VMs running on my work laptop for testing stuff though and literally no one else in the support team knows how to test what I use them for. It's a fairly rare task that no proper process exists for. My thinking is to see if I can either roll out VMs to people or better but less likely get my own virtual server.
document a basic set by set how to use it
make it look really good and find your coworker friends who will test it and give you feedback
documentation writing and scary shit like linux to normies goes a long way
Guess I was lucky. I got an apprenticeship as a Sysadmin and was told I'd mostly be in the in-house/client IT (Windows) but since I had a lot of Linux experience already, on my first day they put me into the server/hosting department (Linux) where I spent most of my apprenticeship.
But yeah looking for a job now, most companies seem to look for "good experience with windows/Windows server required" and "experience with Linux a bonus".
And then you get blamed when it breaks, so they switch back to what they know and use a ready-made solution from Microsoft with full 24/7 support package.
Because it is more important for it to work reliably and be fixed quickly, than for it to not be proprietary or not made by some evil corporation.
Downtime costs money.
I know Linux can be extremely reliable, but they rarely have all the bells and whistles that Microsoft offers and are rarely compatible with all the other software they are already using.
Having multiple different systems overlapping also adds overhead.
So I doubt you will be able to convince many like that. It is easy looking at it from a tech perspective, but they don't make those decisions.
I'm just here for the En Vogue.