
So, in a word the answer was NO!
That was until someone in the know came along to help; so now it's "all stations go"

Rather than post the whole shebang here, you can go to the link below to see what the fuss was about; should you or, anyone else be interested in going down this route.
The solution lies at Linux Forums

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 6#p1224446
Great, I have two machines in one now.
One for today and one for tomorrow.
