...you might as well have yet another go at trying a Linux installation on your existing hardware. And, seeing the only PC that I have at my fingertips is the trusty Asus W7J, it is going to be today's victim.

According to this forum thread it *should* be quite do-able without much fuss. Of course, I've been hearing such Penguin-loving hype for five or six years now. Invariably, you still get caught up in a world of command-line bollocks that you don't really care for and end up deleting the Linux partitition in the end.