Re: How to switch?
Yes, the subtle differences - where I work, IT is hugely under-resourced, and there are only a couple of people with a reasonable amount of linux sysadmin knowledge. Technically, there is nobody in the department who is a sysadmin for any platform as part of their job description.
Then there's the "engineer" responsible for linux, who doesn't really care beyond their high performance cluster, and the people who deploy machines, who are expected to have knowledge of so many different things and so overworked, they can't get in depth knowledge, and get into trouble for going off script.
I agree a linux sysadmin can cope - but not everywhere has a structure which includes a sysadmin.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
