🐧 Not sure if it goes here or not

I’m on mobile and it’s hard to get ahold of any wikis. I’m out of my house for a while today so I come asking questions.

I want to learn to use Linux especially server RHEL or even CentOS. I’m an IT student 2 weeks from being graduate. I’ve had 3 Linux classes but it was just about putting things together. Basically I cheated when I could cuz I just don’t understand Linux. Hell I barely understand windows anymore. I use MacBook Air. I have plenty of hd space and ram and processors to use in my laptop I can run a couple VMs at the same time if I wanted too.

I get how to install a server. I get how to do basic troubleshooting when needed. But to really get the knowledge of Linux I need to use it. I’m not a game player, I don’t have a need for a media server. I can’t afford much yet. Hoping to get a job soon. Have a few prospects. So what can I do with a VM to learn Linux server and become a Linux administrator...several years down the road lol. Which I have this issue with Windows server as well. Once I go thru the books to install and set up users and such there’s just nothing else to do. We have 7-8 computers in our household and it would be cool to put everyone on a domain but at the same time my step dads computers (2) are slow as hell. There’s 2 MBA’s, another 2 windows laptops, then a tablet pc. So 7. We don’t want to share our files with anyone cuz our step dad is a very nosy person if he could figure it out he’d search all our files.

So what is there I can do to get experience with Linux server?