I learnt touch typing the right way ... however, I took at least 3-4 years to get here in steps (I first covered the letters area, after I got it right, I got the numbers right and then the braces etc... I am a hardened vi editor user so I had to get the curly brackets too within my "fingertips").
Sixth Edition Unix was available outside Bell Labs in 1975. Plenty of time to start on your Linux sysadmin skills if you weren't such a slacker that you waited for Linus to grow up first.
Admittedly, Apache and Python were less common in 1977.
Good luck with your efforts.