Dark Screen on Linux Laptop

[Refugee]

** If you have the skills, you can rebuild it from the ground up, changing things as you go along should you wish. All the source code is freely available.  I'm not going anywhere near there.

That reminds me of an older version.
Processors with more than one core were new and the kernel builder had to be used to stop the other three cores laying idle.
It took as long as a whole windows install with all the reading I had to do.