[darkwater]

In general I agree with you but this:

> Sure, you can tell yourself that means you "know" more about the system. But that is time invested that you could have spent doing REAL THINGS, and solving REAL PROBLEMS which are not un-breaking your distro.

You can start a sysadmin career with that kind of experience.

[ubertaco]

I very recently (last week) applied some of the "how do I unbreak my system" lessons I learned from back when I was a teenager messing around with AMD's old proprietary fglrx drivers (and screwing things up on my personal machine) to "how do I get back into my work Linux machine after the Active Directory sync got hosed and my login credentials failed?"

[ryukafalz]

Can confirm. Basically did just that. :)

Not necessarily on Arch specifically, mind you, but a ton of the experience I had that led to me getting my first tech job was breaking stuff and then figuring out how I broke it. It's a great learning experience.

[sudosysgen]

You definitely can, that's how I got into sysadmin jobs :)