Install the current version of 64-bit Linux Mint with MATE desktop on a blank desktop computer. This needs to be a real computer; the AR Sandbox does not work from inside a virtual machine.
Install vendor-supplied drivers for the Nvidia graphics card. Open the Control Center, select “Driver Manager,” wait for the panel to show up and the list of available drivers to be populated, and then select the recommended Nvidia binary driver and press “Apply Changes.” Then wait until the change is complete (might take a while), and reboot your computer.
Assign a keyboard shortcut to switch windows into full-screen mode. Open the Control Center, go to “Keyboard Shortcuts” (all the way down), find the “Window Management” subsection, and then the “Toggle fullscreen mode” entry. Click on the entry, and assign a new shortcut, for example Ctrl+Alt+F.
Open a terminal window and enter precisely the following commands (if in doubt, cut & paste directly from this web page, one line at a time). ~ is shorthand for the user’s home directory: