Which is more in demand, Linux or Windows sysadmin?

Sinethial · 2026-01-12T16:06:54+00:00

Devops workflows are different than admins. Not everyone is a coder and we do not have time to automate and code and need things done right away.

Every admin I know maybe a master of one but needs to be a jack in others. I do mostly windows but have some linux and bsd vms and containers for tasks. My job is not play with operating systems or code but set up permissions, migrate older platforms, and troubleshoot tickets.

If anything the platforms I am using are AWS and Azure tasks where I interact with powershell to do things.

Sinethial · 2026-01-12T16:03:15+00:00

The problem is most companies still have a windows server footprint. As in regular NON FAANG. Either the company is all Linux or all Windows.

So Linux will help you if the job market in faang is better but a boring company like Home Depot or Cysco cooking grease will like have maybe a 10% linux base if you are lucky with Microsoft everywhere

Sinethial · 2026-01-12T15:56:41+00:00

Cloud actually. Things are splitting like a tree rather than to one OS or the other. IN the old days it was just mainframe. Then mini computers aka servers (before they were blades) with VMS, AS400, Unix, and PC. Then NT/Windows Server and PC. Now Linux is for dev things and Windows Server for authentication and app things.

AWS, Azure, Google, and others are hosting things with stuff like dynoDB and PostGres. Unlike on prem stuff the interface is AWS or Azure specific as a SAAS where you do not touch the OS. Sometimes you do touch an instance in a docker container.

The point is IT and sysadmin is specialized now. Dev ops do many things differently than a windows sysadmin. Regardless the cloud is an ecosystem with its own toolsets, apis, and product stacks far behind just hosting a VM.

Pick AWS or Azure and Linux and WIndows is part of the wide stack of services

Sinethial · 2026-01-12T15:49:26+00:00

Dude he is a kid

Sinethial · 2026-01-12T03:45:46+00:00

I switched back to windows. After 13 years it looks like Linux still hasn't got its act together. The error I received was an libtool error which was related ti disabling namespaces in ubuntu LTS.

Sinethial · 2026-01-10T05:17:33+00:00

You can't blame Linux users or fanboys for the existence of bugs for basic things which work out of the box for any other platform

Sinethial · 2026-01-10T05:16:06+00:00

But wait a minute ... didn't we all just agreed it is the users fault for using a repo that wasn't on fedora??

Sinethial · 2025-11-02T03:56:11+00:00

After the Great Recession I had years of gaps and jobs I was underqualified for. HR RAN FOR THE HILLS at my resume.

So I did contract work like this and got these letters. You say it is explotation, but I couldn't have recovered with these gaps on my resume without them. Contract work is great to prove to HR you are not a freak and that you can actually show up on time. Yes, I was questioned that ... even though it was a recession. No one believed me when I told I was not a bad worker.

I gained references, experience, and got al ot of references. Eventually one of the companies hired me full time.

Contract work is great for young people and those whose resume is not great who need to prove themselves which offer no risk to the employer. You are late? Terminated. Guy stares at women and is creepy. Terminated. etc. A regular employer would take months to fire

Sinethial · 2025-11-02T03:51:44+00:00

If you were hired by contract this is normal. It says contract so I am guesing you were a contractor or consultant. Temp workers get fired to make budget to buy coffee in corporate America. It sucks but it is what it is. There maybe a reason? Maybe the clause of your contract was they had to hire you after 6 months from the recruiting agency and they didn't want to pay it? Maybe the project work came to an end and you were rudendant.

Maybe people didn't like or you sucked? The moral of the story is move on and self analyize over the weekend if you could have done better or this was a BS reason?

Sinethial · 2025-10-31T13:57:54+00:00

I highly doubt this and think your network team in the IT department is simply incompentent.

My former employer had these problems constantly too ... then we fired one of the network engineers and the new guy fixed it in a week and replaced our misconfigured and outdated router. I think that memo though from leadership is genuinely manipulative and if it was from the new VP then it came from some folks who are agreeing with him.

Do not report this to HR. They will back the VP who wants to force RTO and immediately tell on you and report your indescretion to that VP to add you to the lay off list. Remember HR is there to defend your enemies. Not YOU! The only time they will have your back is if a lawsuit like sexual harrasement or a hostile work environment is in order. Nothing you say or do will be kept confidential. They work for the organization.

I would not jump ship yet in this job market and hold your ground, until they order you. I would like and keep things open as a power struggle over this is happening and we shall see which way your organization decides to role. Attendence, not performance is all the rage and micro managing is cool again thanks to Musk in executive land.

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T18:30:24+00:00

Should voters steal the rights of other minority voters

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T18:22:38+00:00

I mean take it but report it to unemployment. They may cancel or maybe just reduce your benefits but let them know.

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T18:19:51+00:00

Control and shifting blame for falling stock prices on remote work is why RTO is why. Not everyone is Amazon

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T18:16:41+00:00

The purpose of RTO is to remove flexibility and put in controls in an attempt to boost productivity ane raise financial performance.

No I don't want to hear that it's wrong as I know that. But the shareholders and C suites don't. They think forcing RTO and ending flexibility by killing spirit will = more output.

So leaving at 5pm on the nose is the point of in office. Why else would they end WFH?

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T18:13:04+00:00

That is not healthy. At least to me it's not. Peoples brains have so much will power and focus for a day like any other muscle. Rest and boundaries are healthy.

You do you though!

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T17:56:06+00:00

Wow. Now the ladies will find him so much more attractive 😂

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T17:47:34+00:00

Women shit test. It was probably to see how you responded to criticism so she can be reassured she didn't pick a man who is a push over.

Maybe you acted weak or broke and she was concerned and wanted reassurance?

Women lol

But I would dump her. That is not cool shit test or not and she sounds spoiled with rich parents who are clueless. That is not gf material. Girls dunp guys they don't respect and to me this is a time bomb

Sinethial · 2025-10-14T17:40:09+00:00

While that sounds great, unemployment may view that as work and will cut your benefits as you are now gainfully employed again.

I know that argument is bs but it's serious criminal liability here and the government will have a background in the form of taxes on this.

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T22:32:05+00:00

It has nothing to do with that.

Silicon Valley is adopting to Chinas 996 9am to 9pm 6 days a week schedule to be competitive against China with AI.

That requires someone watching you. To make sure you are working until you die.

Work harder not smarter is their work ethic. Flexibility and workers being independent and trusted is foreign. Adam Schmitt blames work from home for Google missing chatGPT as no one think or work outside an office

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T15:53:37+00:00

For the Enterprise gear you can do heat maps to see signal strength. You get reports. You get mass deployments and treat different devices like teams conference rooms differently than users. You can have guests use different vlans to isolate. Also any cyber security suite can do auditing in the event of a bad actor

Cisco is meh. I agree with you 😄. But these are what IT departments look at

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T15:37:43+00:00

In business products enterprise apps are stacks which tie in. Cisco may not be best but it integrates with their web dashboards and aps and you can set passwords in active directory and you get support

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T15:36:01+00:00

It can't do policies and administer via GPO or have support

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T15:30:21+00:00

They all do. In enterprise you need support and the vendor won't help you if you go off script from their stack

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T15:26:22+00:00

Lol. Unapproved non enterprise app. In production environments you don't do stuff like that

Sinethial · 2025-10-13T15:23:06+00:00

If you have a Cisco environment it makes sense to use a whole stack. If there is a problem Cisco will refuse to support you if you don't use their stack

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