Background at the bottom but bottom line I had VMware working last week on a new linux mint install. This week after not really doing anything in VMware I'm faced with these new problems and I'm wondering if this is worth continuing with VMware? Is VMware reliable under linux? Are these easy fixes?

Launching my VM that worked fine last week I now get a similar error to what I originally saw (I think), why is this happening again? 

VMware let me know there was a new version available, so I told it to do it. The download gets to 100% and then nothing. I've left it in this state for fifteen minutes and TOP says it isn't busy so I don't know what the issue here is. Cancel says cancel the download, cancel the download that is 100% complete?? Reboot and do the same thing and get same results. 

VMware Player 17.0.2 build-21581411 on Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria

Background; I'm moving a windows VM from a personal mac (fusion) to my linux mint machine. New install of mint and I grabbed latest VMware player. I initially had some problems because I do have secure boot enabled and  I didn't understand what was happening the first time the MOH screen came up. This article got me running and I was able to run my windows machine no problem.