I suppose the software issue would kind of depend on how exotic (and technical) your interests were. But for 99% of the things people are normally doing on their computers .. you'll never see a command prompt.

need to know how to code to run Linux. I have used Linux since the mid 90's. I don't know how to code at all. Incompatible software is the fault of the software vendor, not Linux. They could release a Linux version. They just haven't Blame them, not Linux.

for the past ten years. The last time I liked Windows was XP. I tried Win 10 on a new computer and found it incoherent. I lasted a couple of days before laying on Linux again. I still use a 15 year old Mac keyboard. I hope it lasts forever.

for which there is only a Windows version.

lies with whoever made the Windows software you're trying to run. They could release a Linux version. If they haven't blame them, not Linux.

Fear not the penguin!

I use Debian mostly. 4 servers, 2 laptops and a desktop with 4 different versions in separate partitions just for fun. The amount of free software is massive and Libre Office is both compatible with and infinitely better than MS Office.

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Smooth upgrade, except for the long downloads. A couple minor glitches in the tweaking. Firefox keeps changing its look, and trying to get back to the old Favorites spacing is not going well. And no idea why, on the 19, the startup music is gone. Reinstalling that module didn't help, at least not yet.

Firefox keeps all of your user files in /home/yourusername/.mozilla Take note of the .

The dot indicates a hidden folder. Turn on hidden folders to see that folder.

To test Firefox's issue that you're seeing close Firefox and rename the .mozilla folder to old.mozilla.

Restart Firefox. Firefox will automatically create a new copy of that folder. I'm not sure what you mean by Favorites spacing but that change should tell you if Firefox will work correctly in your updated version. If so you should be able to import your old bookmarks from the old folder.

You can also reverse this by closing Firefox, deleting the new .mozilla folder and renaming the old.mozilla back to .mozilla. That will return all of your original Firefox settings and bookmarks and probably what ever issue you were seeing.

For the music startup issue check that the upgrade didn't default to a lowered volume or muted volume during the upgrade process.

Some other folks reported success with uninstalls and reinstalls of pulseaudio. It's just gone.

I upgraded to 19.3 Still gone. So I'm going to go for full upgrade to LM20. Very glad to have a backup hard drive with LM20 already installed and operational.

Does the system play music? For instance a cd or music file.

All sounds except startup were normal all along.

I opened Menu>Sound>Sounds. The first item on the list is Starting Cinnamon. It used a file called login.oga. Would not play. So I loaded the equivalent from the KDE collection of sounds. This is a collection of sounds in the folder that opens when click on the Starting Cinnamon alternative, that file is linuxmint-login.wav. I really don't know where these folders are located, they open automatically. I cannot access the login.oga folder, wherever it is, from the Starting Cinnamon option which is the first on the list. All other sounds in that tile are .oga sounds, and they all work fine.

So now it works and my take is that some folders and options are mismatched during the upgrade.

able to resolve it.

Here is a little tip that may help you find files in the future.

1. Type the following in a terminal
sudo updatedb

2. Now use this command to search your system for a file

locate nameoffile

In your case locate login.oga

On my Mint system there are 2 files that are basically the same sound file. One is login.oga and the other is desktop-login.ogg

Just a trivia note. The file is playing the first notes to the old Matt Monro song "Borm Free".

... and it was rather "zippy" to use his description. It worked well on a 12+ year old Gateway tower. But he's now deleted Linux Mint and installed Kubuntu and he likes that better. (Or... I guess he likes it better. He's enjoying playing with it.)

It runs quite well, but I don't turn it on much.
One big plus was it wiped the drive of windows and old user data.
Another fun thing was making it appear like a Mac onscreen.