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How breaking servers got me Linux+

Today I passed CompTIA Linux+ with a score of 865/900.

The CompTIA Linux+ score report: passing score 720, candidate score 865, result Pass, with the ID numbers covered by black bars — The real score report. The black bars are my ID numbers.

How it happened

I didn't get here by reading. I broke things on purpose, then worked out why.

A pile of Dell, HP and Lenovo machines, an NVIDIA Jetson, CML, GNS3 and EVE-NG for network labs, and virtual hardware I built with v86. Kali, Ubuntu, Rocky, whatever boots. I love Linux as a whole, not one distro.

What made it stick was curiosity. I stopped asking what the right answer is and started asking what happens when it breaks.

It is one thing to know the command.

It is another thing to understand why the system behaves the way it does.

Break something yourself

Same idea, no machines needed:

The Break Room Linux ER The possessed PC