The steps that I describe in this article aren't new at all, but there were a few gotches that I didn't see mentioned in the other articles that I read, so I've written about them here. My NVIDIA card seemed to hate everything but Linux Mint (even Ubuntu, which seems a bit weird since it's the foundation of Mint), and it took me quite a lot of experimentation and installation time before I finally settled on a Linux flavour that suited my needs. It's a sad thing to see a faithful and once glorious machine just rusting away like that, and as it was still very useable for pretty much everything other than modern gaming, I decided to breath life back into it with a copy of Linux. I owned a machine that ran Windows and Visual Studio at a blistering rate, and everything in the kingdom was happy until one day I became more interested in open source development, bought a Macbook Pro and banished my trusty old workhorse to the shadows of the spare bedroom.
NET developer, and a lot of my development work took place in a Windows environment.
