I ended up just installing Mint with xfce on the SSD.  I didn't stay up to play with it.  It didn't boot as quickly as I expected, but it shuts down instantaneously.

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Rich

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 1:03 PM Steven Greenberg <steve@ssgreenberg.name> wrote:
I us an old version of VMWare and Kubuntu.

I managed to get myself paying for VMWare, but I think I could
have got it for free.

/Steve


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