Thank you very much for making and putting out these tutorials! I do appreciate your effort. I would like to ask a few somewhat off-topic questions, if I may. I am looking at Linux certifications. Which cert is the easiest / simplest for complete beginner to study for? How useful are Linux certifications in reality? and in in which occupations /job roles/ these certification are mostly used in? The reason I am asking is this: even if I do not need a certification now, preparing for an exam will bring more structure into a (self)-study process. Secondly, I am wondering if investing time and effort in learning Linux can help me in improving my career options (I am contemplating a career change). Thank you!
First off, thank you for watching and for leaving a positive comment! Now, I am going to try to answer your question regarding certification but there is no simple answer. I am sure that you will get different opinions on this but here is just my take from my personal experience as a forensic examiner and as a hiring manager for a large government entity. I believe that the "usefulness" of any professional certificate depends on what you are going to do with it and what companies/agencies you are applying to work at. I have taken the CompTIA Linux+ exam and found that the material was very useful. I have also taken RedHat's RHCSA and RHCE and found that those are fantastic courses even though I would consider it more vendor specific than the generic certificates. In a recent video (ua-cam.com/video/ryBI6hiWk90/v-deo.html), I had interviewed the founder of Cyber5W and they offer a certificate for Investigating Linux Systems. I am not endorsing any vendors mentioned, just giving you ones that I am familiar with. I ABSOLUTELY believe that learning Linux is going to open you up to more professional opportunities; that's why most of the content in my UA-cam channel is Linux related. I want to share my knowledge with those who want to learn more. Your plan on prepping for an exam just so you can gain experience in the self-study process is brilliant! With learning Linux, I believe that you gain more in-depth knowledge of computers beyond Linux. For example, if you learn about using Linux to access filesystems (Windows or Linux), you will gain much more knowledge about how any filesystem work and will improve your Windows troubleshooting skills. A lot of people learn Linux so that they can be a System Administrator which is great. Beyond that you can gain plenty of knowledge to get jobs in Digital Forensics or Incident Response or Cyber Security or Software Development. Sorry to be long-winded, hope this was helpful.
@@BlueMonkey4n6 Thank YOU very much for your detailed reply! Super appreciate it! Let me tell you my personal observation: I am a former biologist. In modern biology there are two types of researchers -- those who work in the lab, on the bench and those who work on the computers (bioinformaticians etc.). In order to do research in the lab, I would need tens of thousands of dollars invested in special equipment and consumables. To do some computational analysis, I would need an old ThinkCentre or an OptiPlex with SSD and a Linux distro! To my shame, I did not appreciate the power and utility of free and opensource software, otherwise I could have had a different (and probably better) career. As far as a change of a career is concerned, the biggest obstacle is one's credibility. Its difficult to break into a domain if one doesn't have prior experience. Here is where certificates come handy! When you study for an exam or a certificate, you get the idea what you need to know and in what order. Basically, certs help to establish a framework for self-study and give initial credibility to a resume. So far, I got myself "Linux for beginners" (by Jason Cannon) and "How Linux Works" (3rd Ed., NoStarch Press -- I really like them!). I have seen an official prep. book for COMPTIA Linux+ on Amazon. I even wanted to make myself a double-boot machine (with Windows and Linux on separate drives, to be on a safe side), but got it wrong. I purchased refurbished ThinkCentre m920q (Tiny). I should have bought either a used p330 (Tiny) or p340 Station instead, because these have slots for two NVMe SSDa, while my trusty m920q has only one slot for NVMe SSD and one slot for 2.5in SATA SSD. I guess I will try to install Linux along Windows on the same NVMe SSD and see how it goes.
This series is becoming a favourite. Everything is clearly explained with great examples.
So glad you like the videos. Thank you for letting me know!
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Normally I don't like tutorials but this is very well done and I learned few new things.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for your uplifting comment, so glad you found something useful!
Thank you very much for making and putting out these tutorials! I do appreciate your effort.
I would like to ask a few somewhat off-topic questions, if I may.
I am looking at Linux certifications. Which cert is the easiest / simplest for complete beginner to study for? How useful are Linux certifications in reality? and in in which occupations /job roles/ these certification are mostly used in?
The reason I am asking is this: even if I do not need a certification now, preparing for an exam will bring more structure into a (self)-study process. Secondly, I am wondering if investing time and effort in learning Linux can help me in improving my career options (I am contemplating a career change).
Thank you!
First off, thank you for watching and for leaving a positive comment!
Now, I am going to try to answer your question regarding certification but there is no simple answer. I am sure that you will get different opinions on this but here is just my take from my personal experience as a forensic examiner and as a hiring manager for a large government entity.
I believe that the "usefulness" of any professional certificate depends on what you are going to do with it and what companies/agencies you are applying to work at. I have taken the CompTIA Linux+ exam and found that the material was very useful. I have also taken RedHat's RHCSA and RHCE and found that those are fantastic courses even though I would consider it more vendor specific than the generic certificates. In a recent video (ua-cam.com/video/ryBI6hiWk90/v-deo.html), I had interviewed the founder of Cyber5W and they offer a certificate for Investigating Linux Systems. I am not endorsing any vendors mentioned, just giving you ones that I am familiar with.
I ABSOLUTELY believe that learning Linux is going to open you up to more professional opportunities; that's why most of the content in my UA-cam channel is Linux related. I want to share my knowledge with those who want to learn more. Your plan on prepping for an exam just so you can gain experience in the self-study process is brilliant!
With learning Linux, I believe that you gain more in-depth knowledge of computers beyond Linux. For example, if you learn about using Linux to access filesystems (Windows or Linux), you will gain much more knowledge about how any filesystem work and will improve your Windows troubleshooting skills.
A lot of people learn Linux so that they can be a System Administrator which is great. Beyond that you can gain plenty of knowledge to get jobs in Digital Forensics or Incident Response or Cyber Security or Software Development.
Sorry to be long-winded, hope this was helpful.
@@BlueMonkey4n6
Thank YOU very much for your detailed reply! Super appreciate it!
Let me tell you my personal observation: I am a former biologist. In modern biology there are two types of researchers -- those who work in the lab, on the bench and those who work on the computers (bioinformaticians etc.). In order to do research in the lab, I would need tens of thousands of dollars invested in special equipment and consumables. To do some computational analysis, I would need an old ThinkCentre or an OptiPlex with SSD and a Linux distro! To my shame, I did not appreciate the power and utility of free and opensource software, otherwise I could have had a different (and probably better) career.
As far as a change of a career is concerned, the biggest obstacle is one's credibility. Its difficult to break into a domain if one doesn't have prior experience. Here is where certificates come handy! When you study for an exam or a certificate, you get the idea what you need to know and in what order. Basically, certs help to establish a framework for self-study and give initial credibility to a resume.
So far, I got myself "Linux for beginners" (by Jason Cannon) and "How Linux Works" (3rd Ed., NoStarch Press -- I really like them!). I have seen an official prep. book for COMPTIA Linux+ on Amazon.
I even wanted to make myself a double-boot machine (with Windows and Linux on separate drives, to be on a safe side), but got it wrong. I purchased refurbished ThinkCentre m920q (Tiny). I should have bought either a used p330 (Tiny) or p340 Station instead, because these have slots for two NVMe SSDa, while my trusty m920q has only one slot for NVMe SSD and one slot for 2.5in SATA SSD. I guess I will try to install Linux along Windows on the same NVMe SSD and see how it goes.
thanks
You're welcome!