I have 10-15 years of Linux experience for personal use and I have a few years of IT support work in the cloud but I still have some gaps in my tech knowledge, especially in regards to networking. I recently lost my job to AI and I’m interested in what comes next. I won’t touch windows. I don’t want to install it, image it, use it, support it, etc.
Is it possible to get into an IT career without ever acknowledging the existence of windows?
Don’t think in term of IT. Look at R&D for big tech/cloud companies or even startups Devops or SRE type work
Source: 23 years doing sys admin, devops or SRE for major corps, still don’t have a bachelor or touched windows
I appreciate the tip about R&D and startups. I ride my bike a lot and sometimes when I go through office parks or light industrial I see boatloads of tech-ish companies that have no consumer name recognition or anything. Whether it’s R&D at a big cloud provider or something similar, the behind the scenes stuff is more likely to utilize Linux.
Yeah almost every company out there use Linux. Even Microsoft is on Linux these days. I’ve done farm stuff. Wireless stuff. Cloud stuff. Social network stuff. It’s almost 💯 Linux everywhere. And everybody always need devops or SRE types (whether they’ll admit it or not, I’m a software eng these days after they converted us) . Back when I was doing cloud stuff I would have killed for anybody with 10 years of personal Linux experience. All we could get were entry level people that barely understood bash
I appreciate your comment about my experience. Perhaps I’m not giving myself enough credit for what I know. I kind of know these things in isolation since my IRL friends, bar one or two, aren’t very technical so I have no benchmarks to compare myself with.
I did a little bit of cloud stuff in a past job. It was a mix of billing and tech support, nothing requiring a ton of experience or certs, though a general knowledge of computers and public cloud computing was needed. A lot of people who worked there did not have it so I floated to the top pretty quick. I work hard, but I don’t need the stress of being in a dysfunctional org.