Welcome roguebeck,
For Amiga help, tips, advice and entertaining comments, this is the place to be. To be honest and realistic, your A1000 is best suited for old games, unless you like playing with old, ugly productivity applications too. There are some add-ons for the A1000, but they are limited and getting very hard to find in working order. You are much better off trying to get at least an A500/A2000 if not an A3000/A4000/A1200 if expansion and modern software is what you want to run on your Amiga. I might have an A1200 for sale later this year and will post it here and on eBay, so keep your eyes open.
I am totally with you in your beliefs about today's OS's being so inefficient and appreciate the Amiga OS for doing so much with so little. QNX, with their entire OS w/GUI and a browser + a couple of other tiny apps compressed onto a single 1.44mb floppy that self extracted and started itself on an x86 machine blew me away. I was sorry their collaboration with Amiga Inc. fell apart.
Anyway, welcome aboard and stay for a while. You'll be sure to get hooked.
:-D