Linux in the IT world - general support?
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Hi,
I work for an IT company as a general support monkey. We're basically a Microsoft company, only some of the core services run on Linux boxes that typically we don't manage.
Myself I don't lobby for one OS or another. I like to suggest, different OS's suit different purposes, and sometimes simply different tastes.
I have experience with Windows and OS X (which I do like a lot.) But none really with Linux, that is to say, I've used it but not for longer than an hour at a time and never as a main OS.
I want to have a good knowledge of general computing. I accept I'll never be at the computer science level without doing a programming course or a degree.
I really feel like Linux is where it at when it comes to learning lower level operating system fundamentals. I feel any Windows super user could do my job, because it is made very easy for the public to get things done in Windows without technical understanding. I.E I think VERY few people in my office know what a kernel / shell / thread / memory dump / etc is. I only vaguely know myself.
But, to get to the point. I want to actually learn a Linux distro. What one would you recommend? I don't want to go with something like Ubuntu because I feel it won't give me the whole picture. I was thinking Debian myself?
Someone did suggest Arch to me but I see a lot of meme crap about it being a time sink and too 'bleeding edge'. I often hear RedHat is common in enterprise, but I feel Fedora is a bit bloaty (am I wrong there?)
I don't need to become a hardcore Linux user but rather just get up to scratch to a power user level to be able to get things done?
What are your experiences, /g/?
Would also like to hear from anyone else on /g/ who works as a general tech support for SME's etc. Which distro do you often come across in the industry?
I know a lot of /g/ is CS based but I'm not really at that level (although I find it interesting.)
>>51986391
>I want to actually learn a Linux distro. What one would you recommend?
the only distros that matter in the real world are rhel/centos and debian
>>51986391
Start with Mint or Ubuntu.
You can still go "hardcore command line haxx0r" but you can also enjoy a good GUI.
Linux is a lot "learning by doing".
Because most of the anons here will probably shitpost with meme greentext that has no value:
Gentoo is Linux by itself, you need to set up the kernel and everything. It's too difficult, as a minimal install would take 1 week by hand.
Red Hat is preferable for IT Enterprise.
CentOS is more for server management.
Mint is a simpler and better Ubuntu.
Debian by itself is perfect, comfy, and provides the most Linux support out of any OS with it's recognizable packages like sudo, apt-get, etc.
I prefer Red Hat or Debian.
>>51986492
Mint, Debian, CentOS or Red Hat*
But my most preferred choice for IT enterprise would be pure Debian or RedHat. CentOS like I said, is more for servers.
Install Mint. Tinker with it as much as possible. Then go LFS. Now you know Linux enough so you can revert to Mint.
>>51986492
>>51986516
centos is redhat without the enterprise support.. the distro is the exact same thing
>>51986549
I believe there is a small difference between RHEL and CentOS in cron/cronjobs
But yeah, 99% same OS
>>51986391
Debian and CentOS are your choices
CentOS, RHEL and Debian based servers cover most of the linux environment you'll see
>>51986619
>I believe there is a small difference between RHEL and CentOS in cron/cronjobs
no there isn't
it's the exact same thing
Looks like Debian will be my way to go, and then I may look into Mint and RHEL when the time comes.
Thanks for the decent posts, infarct there were pretty much 0% shit posting which is impressive.
If you want to learn skills that are relevant to IT play around with a CENTOS virtual machine.