I’m with you. Similar age and all that.
You’re on the right track and doing the right things.
I would just say the process of finding the right medication(s) can be a long and frustrating process but very worth it in the end.
You try a new med, you have to titrate up to treatment dosage (weeks) only to find It’s not right, some meds you need to titrate back down before you can try the next one. Just to try out one medication could take a month or two not to mention usually monthly specialist visits. People get burnt out and lose hope that anything will work.
It might have taken me a year to land on the right combo so if you go the medication route be patient until you find the right one.
I have an old hp mini netbook with an atom processor and 1gb RAM. I needed something light to run on it so I put Lubuntu on it.
It was fun dabbling in it and getting everything to work but I haven’t really messed with it since.
I was probably 40.
I run Win on my main pc only for gaming really. Maybe if linux gets better support I would consider switching over.