Getting experience

[Xsorovan]

Hey Everyone,
I currently work at a job, and have worked at jobs, that are strickly "windows based" shops. My Resume reads like I have a personal love affair with MS Products. Not that that is overly bad, I mean MS keeps me employed with their software, so I won't bite the hand that feeds me, BUT there have been a couple of very, very cool jobs that I have had an interest in where the employer wants "Linux Desktop Support Experience".

How on earth does someone like me who lives in the World of Windows, even begin to get into the world of "Linux Desktop Support"? I've got the skillz to fix pretty much any windows problem, how can I translate that into fixing linux problems? Any suggestions on how to go to linux support/ starting to gain experience in that area would be appreciated. (My logic seems to be that installing and playing with something like Ubuntu or Red Hat isn't enough because as an advanced computer user I won't be doing some things that "normal" users might be doing.)

Anyway, suggestions, websites, stories, all would be good to hear.

Thanks

 

[James Bond]

I'm wondering the same thing.

 

[NuclearNed]

get some sort of *nix certification?

 

[FoBoT]

from a different crappy job that you'll have to do and hate for a while to get the experience to then get a better, less crappy job that you won't hate as much

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
from a different crappy job that you'll have to do and hate for a while to get the experience to then get a better, less crappy job that you won't hate as much

It's a damned vicious circle.