It helps me a lot to improving my knowledge about linux and coursera is a great platform to build up a new skills for future jobs.
If you do not know LINUX, then do not take this course.
This is a course that could have been good for beginners. But it not.
The order of the course is haphazard. For example early on in the course you are required to install packages - but the explanation of how to install packages is only at the end of the course.
The explanations given, in places, assume that your day job is as a network administrator or similar - so if you day job is not, again don't take this course.
Some of the lessons consist of a sheet detailing 20 or so commands - which for me at least, was not an easy way to learn something new.
I would say though that the course lecturer is clearly an expert in the field and that the material could be re-purposed with only some effort in order to make it beginner friendly (if they ever wanted to) . In the meantime - if you are a beginner, try somewhere else.
