No starch press has many such books.

“How Linux Works”, “The Linux Command Line” is the one I’ve (partially) read.

There’s also Linux From Scratch or maybe just try Arch without the install script if you have spare ssd to boot.

I’ve found that just selhosting shit will hit some inevitable roadblock, so it tend to end up making you read a whole bunch of documentation and at many points you will encounter new incantations which you also need the docs if you curious enough