I’ve only become a true evangelist after configuring SSDs on Linux Mint 19.
I had trouble before, but now I’m all Good and off and running.
Oracle VirtualBox and underlying VMs pretty much solve all issues.
I just set up VirtualBox and going to load a copy of same then clone it again in the VB, sounds like this is what you did. Next will be OpenVPN, both as extra security layers for TOR. That way I can just throw away an infected clone if I have to and clone another copy within VB and be good to go again.
From what I understand 19 is going to remain the base platform from now on without anymore major changes. Good... Make something that works and then just leave it alone as is. No need to keep redesigning stuff like MS, if it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it.
Something I need to share, I just loaded 19 in my wife’s computer as dual boot along with win 10. Went flawlessly but after trying to access the windows files through Linux like I can do with my win 7 dual boot I found that win 10 never actually turns off completely.
It is always in hibernation mode even after you think you have turned it off. So because it was in hibernation mode and sill running in the background it denied access to the files within it.
THAT’S why her laptop kept eating power from the battery even when it was supposed to be off. Win 10 is always on, it won’t let you turn it completely off. Just one more reason to get rid of win 10.