I do both. At home I do what you’re describing for Linux but at work I do sysadmin work.
The stuff that winds up mattering on the Windows side tends to be a lot more social and resource based than it is hyper technical and digging in the weeds. If vendor software sucks, you debug it by yelling at the vendor to stop sucking (in the nicest way you can muster). You’ll need to document expected vs actual behavior but most of them will hop to and provide a fix fairly quickly. The rest is just making sure you have correct configurations and a proper environment set up (including security and such). Easier said than done of course.
I do both. At home I do what you’re describing for Linux but at work I do sysadmin work.
The stuff that winds up mattering on the Windows side tends to be a lot more social and resource based than it is hyper technical and digging in the weeds. If vendor software sucks, you debug it by yelling at the vendor to stop sucking (in the nicest way you can muster). You’ll need to document expected vs actual behavior but most of them will hop to and provide a fix fairly quickly. The rest is just making sure you have correct configurations and a proper environment set up (including security and such). Easier said than done of course.