or run Windows 10.
you will no longer have:
lower hashrates
poor overclocking tools
poor bios flashing tools
less access to windows only software (certain miners, nicehash, etc)
all of the problems you listed for windows are not real problems and easily solved or avoided.
Driver problems --> dont install shit drivers and properly uninstall any old drivers (try and tell me how linux nvidia drivers are in any way better/more stable, I'll hear your response when i'm finished laughing)
Reliability problems --> again none. this only becomes a problem with people who overclock too much or have conflicting driver versions that werent properly uninstalled
Windows update breaking things --> can be turned off without too much trouble. and even ubuntu has pesky update warnings and will auto-install if you dont stop it. linux isnt a magical savior here
Random blue screens --> doesnt happen on stable setups. see the same point about reliability
Licensing issues --> windows 10 is free to use. there is ZERO functional change by simply not activating the software. about the only thing you cant do is change the desktop background.
and 152 days uptime on a simple system with 1 GPU thats likely stock clocked?
much wow. very impress 
. Actually I manage about 1500 GPU rigs. 350 of em are Windows. Guess which ones require the most attention and weekly reboots? (hint: its not linux)
My advice comes from having more mining experience than any 500 average people combined on this forum.
lower hashrates - no? Go ahead and try and prove it
poor overclocking tools - My machines are all upclocked via simple scripts
poor bios flashing tools - Polaris BIOS editor works just fine in linux
less access to windows only software (certain miners, nicehash, etc) - Nicehash is for the lazy and ignorant and my linux machines each support at least 18 different miners with the ability to add more. There is nothing useful on Windows that doesnt work in linux.
P.S. Go count the threads of people with windows problems versus linux and tell me windows is the superior choice....
Thx for your input man !
I was looking for someone with exp in massive mining. I run a small farm and win10 is a psycho princess that's constantly in needs of attention. I hate it, my life is hell because of those vision-less and under-competent lobotomized engineers working at M$ !
I am looking for a linux setup, but my main concern is security. It is so easy to hack linux that I'm afraid to wake-up one morning with a farm of zombie rigs, or worst, be clogged with trojans all over the farm...
The minue I feal I can trust Lunix, I will ditch this disease trash of OS that is win 10.
Any input on that would be appreciated.