personally, I would just download a free copy of Centos, install it and go from there. It is linux. So you would have to learn a new operating system. Honestly that's the absolute best case scenario. Windows sucks, this would give you a chance to get comfortable with an open source free operating system.. If that's not to your taste, then disregard and wait for another comment.
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