Are linux certs a meme?
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@bograt but i might not be the best to judge this, strong scruffy beard unix vibes here.
@bonifartius doesn't that make you the best judge though? I ask because I've landed in IT and I'm wondering if it will help me later on down the road. NB: I have no formal training in anything computer related, it's just that I already know 60% of the stuff on the RHCSA.
@bograt i just don't want anyone to make decisions based on me, a random internet stranger :)
it depends on what you want. i think those things prepare you to do standard sysadmin stuff with a standard distribution (which, tbh, pays the bread). those are _really_ different from how things would be done "the unix way".
@bonifartius i.e. on Solaris?
@bonifartius meanwhile even from the end user perspective, stuff that worked 30 years ago still works just fine if not better than the modern alternatives (TeX, SQL, graphviz, mutt, both major text editors, &c.)
@bograt that said, what little i know of solaris was of course "enterprise" but rather well thought out. modern linux is a hodgepodge of things, even more than it was, say 15 years ago. things get replaced _all the time_really by overly complex stuff regardless of if it is really necessary.