AHAHA that error was f'd up. Yes, it has its crazyness', ocasionally, but I had a mighty good time with 12.04. Let's see how 13.10 behaves as my main driver.

About Fedora, I have fiddled with it in my Linux-discovery days (not that I'm any kind of pro! on the contrary) and found it to be rather OK, but right now I dont want to waste any time getting to know a different structure, different package manager, etc etc. That takes time and I'd like to focus on some important objectives on 2014.

Thanks for the tip though! (And for the read! Very excited for being noticed on the big orange ocean.)