Have you ever tried a linux distribution ?
dreamtraveler
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So i used to own a toshiba notebook (gh200 something) up until i had to use the recovery disk cause the operating system was messed up the problem was that the recovery disk was so scratched that it was unreadable so i contacted toshiba and they told something like go to Gomerz Bank and deposit 30 euro i went there and they told me that for inter-banking transactions there is an extra fee and i said ok... then i used ubuntu... not the ideal solution but at that time it was all i knew about open source operating systems... now i will never use a point release OS i favor rolling releases... but hey do tell your first experience with linux (if you have any)
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Picking it up when I did was a great career move. I've had decent jobs for the last 14 years. I've been the DevOps engineer for the last couple of years for a newspaper in a major metropolitan area because I bet on it a long time ago. These days with tooling, I'm managing several networks and dozens of VMs, stuff that would have taken a whole department to do 10 years ago, and could scale that up to hundreds pretty easily. Pick up Linux with some sort of configuration management system, be it chef, docker, ansible, kubernetes, habitat and you will have guaranteed employment.
There's a logic and flow to Linux, that once you understand it, Windows just does not make sense. It's been my primary desktop OS since 2001. I keep a windows install, just for games, and there is no end of swearing every time it has to update. In a Linux distro, even a major version upgrade is a snap, and there's only a handful of things that require a reboot, when upgrading. Update windows, and you can see as many as 4 reboots for one set of updates, it taking hours, and very little feedback as to how long it's going to take or what's changing.
Shameless plug, but all the Enhanced Editions done by beamdog run great on Linux. NWN is still a bit rough with full screen not working fully, but I'm sure it'll be sorted before the official release.