Career path from general Linux sysadmin with LEMP?

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I have a homelab with Fedora currently and am familiar with LEMP, but I'm finding Windows more stable as of lately and I'm considering pursuing a career path with Microsoft and Windows services. I'm looking for discussions into what kind of certifications or paths I can look into or what might be interesting!

I'm more into system administration, vs programming. I'd rather configure and tweak IIS to host a website, vs using CSS to change how that website looks. I think I would be more into configuring how systems function inside a cooperation, but I don't know much about Azure aside from the vague concept of it being a cloud provider like AWS.

I used Fedora Workstation and Server for some years primarily and am familiar with RHEL. My home lab was a few game servers, LEMP (nginx for some public sites, MariaDB for game and site databases), and vsftpd for a NAS. I particularly liked Fedora because of SELinux and the enterprise-feel to it, and that it led in technology (systemd, GNOME). The recent push for Wayland lately feels hostile, and that long with my recent instability on Linux has be feeling less confident in it as a career path.

Most of my Windows experience is with personal installs with heavy tweaking towards gaming performance. I was a part of Intel 9xxSSF for modded Intel graphics drivers, and was big into VR performance particularly with AMD GPU encoders and Meta headsets. My personal set-ups include all performance limited security (EnableLua=0 Defender disabled), along with the confidence I can surf freely, vet downloads, backup my most important files, and reinstall from complete scratch to game-ready in about 2 hours without Unattended or automation. I like the idea of automation for mass deployments, but disliked the idea of learning Ansible or doing it with Linux as I feel that would have abstracted some tweaks I do.

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Certification is not supported here on Q&A forums. I'd try asking for assistance in dedicated forums here. Participate\Ask A Question Learn / Cert Moderators will help you from there.

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