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My preference is to install the new version and do my own testing. What works for one may not work for all has been my experience with Wine in the past.

Then there is hope! Thank you.

Thank you for the how to information. Unfortunately, I have had very poor success with installing anything not from the Mint repository, and I am sure I am not alone in this experience. Too complicated for mere mortals to attempt. Too bad the repository is allowed to lapse and not include this impor...

There is a new version of Wine out (6.0) and I am wondering when it will be vetted and available in the Software Manager? I still have a few Windows only programs I must run and there is always the chance that a new Wine might run them. Nothing I would like better than to toss my Windows system and ...

Take a look at the stick and see if it has any strange partitions on it. If so, remove them and then reformat the stick.

I did a clean install of Mint 20, then did a search of the file system. Well, there is all that Google stuff. It appears to come with the install. I have no idea of the reasoning behind the inclusion - but, I'd bet it is solid. I have faith in Mint.

Mint 20 (updated every couple of weeks) and Firefox (latest available). I am going to do a clean install of Mint 20 on a spare drive and tinker with that and see if I can ascertain where the stuff (technical term for files of unknown origin) is coming from. I do use various blockers etc., all proper...

This afternoon I ran a search for "google" in my HOME directory. It listed a mob of stuff appearing to be Google related. Is this normal? If not, how do I get rid of it?

I changed everything over to IMAP. Appeared to be the easiest route.
Thanks for the suggestion.

I dual boot and there are days when I must remain on Windows all day. Hence, I check my email on TBird while in Windows. This is fine, until I switch back to Mint - where I used to be able to copy/paste the TBird profile from the Windows version to the Mint version. I can no longer do this, as the M...

I run Mint for the security and simplicity of the OS. Why would I want to muddy the waters by running it inside of Windows 10? Seems to me, you are defeating the purpose of using Linux in the first place by having it anywhere near a Windows OS. Is there something I am missing? Currently I dual boot ...

Again - thank you very much.

That appears to have fixed the problem. I rebooted and it stayed where it was supposed to.
Thank you very much. I would have been totally unable to solve this problem on my own. I just do not have the background.

Preferred settings:
Output is "Line Out Built-in Audio"
Input is "Microphone USB PnP Audio Device"

PAVUCONTROL did not work. Looked OK, but did not survive reboot. He are the results you requested: bill@bill-Aspire-TC-885:~$ pacmd list-cards 4 card(s) available. index: 0 name: <alsa_card.usb-BurrBrown_from_Texas_Instruments_USB_AUDIO_CODEC-00> driver: <module-alsa-card.c> owner module: 7 properti...

Every time I reboot, I must reselect my audio input and output choices. Because I dual boot several times a day, this is a real detractor from using Mint 20. How can I make my selections permanent - so they will survive a reboot? Thank you.

Sadly, there are still a few Windows only programs out there that I need. TurboTax Quicken Print Shop Front Page (when I am to lazy to write my own HTML code) several amateur radio programs - I can do without, but do enjoy from time to time Others have been mitigated by using Wine or coding my own s...

All software cloning is problematic. Hence, I use hardware cloning only. Never any failures.

Now if the Thunderbird would also be updated in the repository.

Update must be very recent - as in minutes ago.