Installing Linux on Inspiron 3451

This is an older fourth generation Intel that now has Windows 10 Home, and 4 GB RAM.   

I used Ubuntu 16 and 17 live.  I have also installed both.   Ubuntu will not shut down.  I did completely reformat drive.  I tried several different options of hard drive format.  Finally trying the most basic one main partition,and no encryption.  

I thought at one time this laptop came with either Linux or Windows 10, but I do not see the download for Linux on my support page.   Maybe because I did not buy it.   However I would not want to run Linux unless it had the later updates.   

I have perused the Ubuntu forums, and saw suggestions for a fix of to make shutdown finish that are for earlier versions of Ubuntu, and none of those suggestions worked.   I also do not know how to get behind that closing Ubuntu splash screen.  I am now frustrated enough that I would try to not use Ubuntu, which may never work properly.

I wanted to try QUBES, but the install will not even start.   However that was always not likely for this limited of hardware.   

Anyone here want to suggest a version of Linux that I can install on hard drive?  (I have tried several, guessing some do not have the correct video driver.)