I checked Lubuntu with that older Dell, Lubuntu does not have drivers for intel on board video, and it looks like there's no drivers available except for the *nix default and it's not very pretty. I popped in an old MX440 Nvidia card and that seems to work well, but just for basics I suppose.
Had some difficulty installing a driver for my Brother Printer, it's not in the synaptics and no repositories have my driver. I was able to get the drivers from the Brother printers web site though. Lubuntu has Firefox and Flash Player by default during the install, but had to get Libre Office, VLC Media player, more wallpapers and any screensavers (there are none by default) through synaptics.
Not the type of distro you can install and walk away from, needs some fidigiting but it's painless. Count on getting an old video card for that old Dell pc (Optiplex GX270 in my case)
