Can you recommend websites, videos or challenges that help to learn Linux system administration? Something like the Linux Upskill Challenge or Bash challenges on hackerrank.com
Do you use linux as your daily driver ? If not,
install gentootry to daily drive an arch-based OS such as EndeavorOS, Arcolinux,Manjaro(Don’t use Manjaro).No. I had Manjoro for some time and then Linux Mint as daily driver. But nowadays I use Linux exclusively on the server side privately and professionally.
May I ask why you stopped using linux on the desktop ?
Sure. It wasn’t a decision against Linux per se. I was considering whether to get a computer with Linux again or a Mac. In the end, the deciding factor was that Apple had released the M1 Macs at this time and I was just really curious to try them out after decades of Windows and a few years of Linux.
The best challenge is to get yourself some Linux distro that, after installing, just drops you into a shell and then install and configure the server software or the desktop software yourself. You could use a Raspberry Pi for this.
I used arch btw.
Probably not exactly what you are looking for, but I’d recommend just starting to selfhost things. Have some old computer? Want to get a VPS?..
Something thats neat for selfhosting is pihole, if you feel up for it, go with docker as it makes things much easier in the long run.
Don’t be too afraid to break your software. It will happen eventually. And always remember that stuff deleted with
rmwon’t come back, thats what made me install a new OS on my VPS.If OP wants to learn admin stuff, why use docker for pihole? The install script is already very easy to use
OP would probably learn a lot more from using the install script and running “pihole -up” command once in a while
I remember my first rocker adventures. I was furious at it, it seemed so weird and complicated.
I felt like a 1337 haxxor when I got a shell in a docker container and hacked around something that would not be stored outside the container in any way.
