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Laptop OS
I'd suggest you just choose one. I personally think that if you're attached enough to Windows to keep it on there without doing everything possible to make free Windows wrappers work on Linux, that you aren't completely attached to Linux, and Windows would suit all your needs.
I'd say FreeBSD, but thaz' juz' me.