A friend of mine has up an old xp-era laptop and wants me to try to give it some level of usefulness. It boots up to the windows login screen just fine, so I put in my Ubuntu usb and grub came up like normal. When I selected "try/install ubuntu", it gave an error that I fixed by enabling virtualization in the bios. Next time I tried booting, it got to the screen where you select install or try, but everything was extremely dim as if the backlight was dead. But windows, the bios and grub didn't have this issue, so it can't be the hardware. I can kind of see with a flashlight and turned up the brightness slider, but nothing happened. The laptop is a dell precision m4300 with a core 2 duo and 2gb ram, so is ubuntu even usable or should I find a more lightweight os?
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