@CoolBeance @mastermind

Note: my advice might be useless. I am not a sysadmin nor do I want to be. I am however a CS student and am mostly just hugely obsessed with linux.

I learned a lot of sysadmin stuff by just getting heavily into linux and setting up my system from scratch (I started with debian, later moved to arch, then Gentoo, and now am on NixOS).

The common thread between all of these distros, is that they aren't really downstream of anything, which means you need to setup everything for yourself.

Another thing I make heavy use of is the CLI. Using a window manager, rather than a normal full blown desktop environment promotes this a lot. These days I use hyprland.

Another good exercise is just setting up a server. Setting up a media server, as well as my mastodon server taught me a lot.