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.
