Life In 19x19

I used to latch on to pithy sayings such as Go Seigen saying, "The corners are always biggest". My equivalent of the school of hard knocks, playing over his actual games, led to me retort, "Oh yeah, so why don't you follow your own advice?" I'm not sure that it would be an exaggeration to say that ...

I have downloaded 10.04 but not installed it. Now that I have this setup configured, not sure I really need to bother upgrading at this time.

Does anyone think bumping up to 10.04 from 9.10 is worth the bother?

If I'm reading this right, you may be contemplating the difficult way to do the ...

Start with Ubuntu. If you outgrow it, or decide you want more control over your system then try Arch.

Arch isn't a good distro for people new to Linux, but I really like it.

Brandon Sanderson's Elantris was pretty good. There is magic in it, but it's not overdone. He creates a magic system in his books. (Well, he did in Elantris and Warbreaker. I haven't read his other books.) Warbreaker is available for free as a promotion from his site. http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book/Warbreaker