Does the answer change if employable is taken to mean worth hiring to do some low level work under supervision of someone who is genuinely competent?
I don’t know. My imagination is impoverished, and I can’t think of anything that your basic Linux poweruser is useful for that doesn’t require more advanced sysadmin chops.
That makes me hesitant to combine learning linux through Ubuntu and Python. Is that a reasonable hesitancy?
Python (and most FLOSS languages) work best under a Linux, so it’s not unreasonable. It’s more reasonable than learning it under Windows, for example.
Power user! I don’t think I’ve heard that word in a long time. Google Trends somewhat confirms my intuition, showing a fairly steady decline since they started keeping track. Unfortunately they only have data back to 2004, my intuition suggests that the word had already been in decline for some time at that point.
I picked up a skill point or two in server wrangling, but I’m nowhere near employable as a sysadmin (I’m a C++ programmer). So the only advice I can offer is generic: mess around with stuff that interests you until you get good at it. It’s not very structured advice, to be sure. :->
I don’t know. My imagination is impoverished, and I can’t think of anything that your basic Linux poweruser is useful for that doesn’t require more advanced sysadmin chops.
Python (and most FLOSS languages) work best under a Linux, so it’s not unreasonable. It’s more reasonable than learning it under Windows, for example.
Power user! I don’t think I’ve heard that word in a long time. Google Trends somewhat confirms my intuition, showing a fairly steady decline since they started keeping track. Unfortunately they only have data back to 2004, my intuition suggests that the word had already been in decline for some time at that point.
I picked up a skill point or two in server wrangling, but I’m nowhere near employable as a sysadmin (I’m a C++ programmer). So the only advice I can offer is generic: mess around with stuff that interests you until you get good at it. It’s not very structured advice, to be sure. :->