Ask HN: Invest –$400 on a spare laptop or RHCSA certification?

atsaloli · 2 hours ago

Have you considered using a cloud VM? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gives them for free for personal use: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Oracle Linux is basically RHEL (rebranded) under the hood.

Could you practice your RHEL sysadmin skills on an Oracle Linux cloud VM?

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shivajikobardan · 1 hour ago

I can indeed but I don't have credit/debit card for even using the free tier.

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atsaloli · 37 minutes ago

What do you think about using a Nabil bank dollar card, as described in https://www.reddit.com/r/technepal/comments/13edy7i/oracle_f... ?

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Atreiden · 2 hours ago

Homelab over certification, easily. The best engineers I know never held a cert. Some hiring managers consider it a negative signal. It's the same problem with bootcamp coders - it's a signal that you need to be explicitly instructed to learn, versus being able to self-start and learn organically.

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