Thanks but my point still stands: there's no entry-level roles, whether it's "Linux" or a Linux-based "DevOps" role. I'm actually working in a windows-based mostly-DevOps type role, but we use almost zero opensource tools and it's very Microsoft centric.
The closest Linux-y roles that I might have a shot at getting into are "cloud engineer" type roles, with a heavy emphasis on AWS - and I hate AWS with a passion (just as much as I hate Azure).
Regardless, the biggest issue is getting that interview call - now in the age of AI, people are faking their CVs and companies are getting flooded with hundreds or thousands of junk applications, so getting that interview call - especially when you don't meet their professional experience requirements - is next to impossible. I could have all the Kuberneres certs in the world, but what's the point if I get filtered out right at the first stage?
Start introducing it where you are. I was an early advocate for the use of WSL2/Docker and along with that a push towards deploying to Linux initially as a cost saving as projects started shifting away from .Net Framework and into .Net Core and Node that were actually easier to deploy to Linux... WSL/Docker became a natural fit as it was "closer to production" for the development workflow.
It's not always possible, but there are definitely selling points that can help you introduce these things. Hell, scripting out the onboarding chores from a clean windows install (powershell to bootstrap in windows, then bash, etc for the WSL environment) with only 3-4 manual steps... and you get a new dev onboarded in a couple hours with a fully working environment and software stack, including an initialized database... You can raise some eyebrows.
Do the same for automated deployments on your existing projects... shift the testing environments to Linux as a "test" or "experiment" ... you can eat away at both directions.
Before you know it, developers can choose windows or mac instead of one or the other, and can use whatever editor they like. Maybe still stuck with C# or MS-SQL, maybe PostgreSQL for green projects.
The closest Linux-y roles that I might have a shot at getting into are "cloud engineer" type roles, with a heavy emphasis on AWS - and I hate AWS with a passion (just as much as I hate Azure).
Regardless, the biggest issue is getting that interview call - now in the age of AI, people are faking their CVs and companies are getting flooded with hundreds or thousands of junk applications, so getting that interview call - especially when you don't meet their professional experience requirements - is next to impossible. I could have all the Kuberneres certs in the world, but what's the point if I get filtered out right at the first stage?