Other than going back to #archlinux I've basically poured a lot of time learning #powershell. I can say hands-down PowerShell is one of the most underrated scripting languages. The sheer simplicity once you learn its syntax and flow of things makes it a very versatile tool especially for cross-platform.
To think I could simply start threads so easily to do things with start-threadjob and other things in parallel left me in awed.