Thanks!

I don't know what difference Mint does with this, other than those possible differences mentioned already above. I installed, into VM, Mint to see how it looks. It looks, in this regard, different to Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

However, GUI probably makes no difference in this. The Debian packages (or non-Debian) that actually make the Network Manager, might make a difference (still depending on kernel and its modules, perhaps). Well, I'm not the right guy to hunt that down - perhaps you already started that, if it really interests you that much.

There are quite a few inconsistencies and failures with VMware Linux versions (*buntu, perhaps some of them are generic to Linux). For instance copying files between VM and Host is a big mess and results in tens of modal error messages if you try. (Of course, networking works for file sharing). I'm not saying that there aren't problems with Windows 10 versions.

It is only so much, ANYBODY on this Forum is capable of doing or mostly even willing to do without any knowledge on the internals of the software. It seems that software quality control (like certification, testing, releasing, documentation) is under staffed. Ubuntu versions used to be error-free in the past.

Idea of a Forum is not really to help people in their difficult problems. The idea is to prevent people struggling with problems by giving solutions beforehand. Now we are hitting a brick-wall in many cases.