Correct. You should make your vote count. You should study the candidates, their positions and their records. Do our homework and vote.
Not voting is actually voting. It is a vote for the worst of the candidates on the ballot. If you know that there is a worst candidate, vote for another. The other candidate will be better than the worst and your vote could be the one that puts them over to as win.
For example your state has 20 electoral votes and 3000 voting pricents. Lets say the vote is 5000 for each candidate except the worst, who has 5100. If one voter in each pricent votes for another candidate and 1/2 vote for the same other candidate and no vote for the worst, another candidate wins by 1400 votes. so every vote counts and not voting is a votes for some candidate but an unknown one.
Logic here is a little tenuous, but the case is real. For example, the original vote that put Al Frankin into the Senate was so close it took three recounts to get a victor (less than 500 votes), the vote that put a governor into office in Washington State was won by 1 vote. Examples can be found in every election in every nstate.
So I repeat, not voting is a vote, you just don't know who is going to benefit from it.

I, too, am voting this year for the first time in decades (in fact, I stood in line almost 90 minutes to vote today!).

I voted for Trump because I want to vote my conscience, not my indignation.