Where is best place to report bug, find reported bugs, or request help?
 

Here doesn't seem very active. But:

1. attempting to load https://elementarycommunity.slack.com/messages redirects to
2. https://elementarycommunity.slack.com/messages "Please change browsers or use the Slack App"
3. Clicking the "Use Slack App" button results in an error page "One of the following (slack) is not a registered protocol or is not allowed in this context."
4. https://github.com/elementary doesn't seem to provide "Installation" against which to file a bug report
5. Searching https://github.com/elementary for GM965 (popular old Intel laptop video for which problems were and are common)
6. Searching with Google or DuckDuckGo for GM965 on https://elementary.io/ also produces no hits regarding installation

• Issues:
• without nomodeset, dmesg is mostly a flood of dump screens. Cannot stay on vtty2 because it keeps auto switching back to vtty7, where there is nothing but a mouse pointer on a black screen. Switching to vtty2 takes more than a minute to get the black vtty7 replaced by whatever is on vtty2. As a practical matter this severely inhibits collecting data to accompany a bug report.
• with nomodeset, the start job for the Ubuntu live CD installer just runs and runs and runs and .... (more than 20 minutes before I gave up)

I'm not a newbie, >15 years using Linux either extensively or mostly, and multi- multi-booting almost exclusively. This old Vaio however is not mine, but a job I'm trying to do for a friend with limited mental talent. I was hoping the apparent similarity to MacOS would be his cup of tea.

Could it be Elementary is just too demanding for 2GB and/or this old chipset and/or a 2.2GHz Core2Duo, and 4GB RAM should be a minimum instead of a mere recommendation?

Checking their support page, I note they have a link to https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/ which might be worth a shot.