Ubuntu 16.10 sound struggles

Getting my sound working is now on the agenda after getting the primary game I like (Guild Wars 2) to install and load.

Now all attempts to play sound through my headset fails with what appears to be a USB lockup. Specifically these seem to roll around the fwupd process and this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd/+bug/1574079

Since I have a USB - Mouse, keyboard, headset, and wireless NIC this could be a problem for me if the system cant keep it straight which device is supposed to do what function.  Apparently it could try to send mouse commands to the sound device or sound outputs to the mouse device. Umm yeah...

But I dont want to go the route of some of the references, in saying that my hardware is too old. Once I start that I will need to replace everything as its all fairly old as far as computer hardware goes. Maybe that is the final real answer, but hopefully not today.

I found these kinds of references on boards concerning that bug that spoke of the Logitech Unifying driver and how to get this installed, and registered properly by unplugging and replugging each device.  Now I have a tray icon showing me the power left on the mouse. Unsure what it does for the keyboard

Installed per this
http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/installation.html
and this
https://launchpad.net/~daniel.pavel/+archive/ubuntu/solaar

Using these command sequences

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniel.pavel/solaar
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install solaar

Now I'm working my way through the other known bits needed by wine and Playonlinux I had already found , such as needing libpng.so installed and ensuring the wine:386 components are installed. 

libpng

sudo apt-get install libpng-dev

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

http://askubuntu.com/questions/508934/how-to-install-libpng-and-zlib

Now I'm back to setting up the rest of the components

Playonlinux

1. Add the repository by using the following in the terminal,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps

2. Then update your package list,

sudo apt-get update

3. And then installation,

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

And Wine

1. Add the PPA via command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

2. Update package cache and install wine1.9:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.9 winetricks

Install latest Wine Dev release from the Official WineHQ PPA:

Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, paste below commands and run one by one.

1. For 64-bit system, rum command to enable 32 bit architecture:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

2. Add the wine PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

3. Once you have the PPA added in your system, run below commands one by one to refresh package caches and install Wine 1.8:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

The installation automatically replaces old wine releases installed on your system.

4. Finally you may run below command to initialize your wine configuration.

winecfg

Inside the winecfg is the critical to GuildWars2 of going into the wine configuration and setting to emulate windows desktop.


And now finding the Ubuntu Software Center wont load

Software Center

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

Step 10 Ubuntu Software Center fails to open

If the Ubuntu Software Center fails to open, then please execute these Terminal commands: 

sudo rm /usr/lib/python*/dist-packages/__pycache__/*pyc

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3-gi

sudo apt-get purge software-center

rm -rf ~/.cache/software-center

rm -rf ~/.config/software-center

rm -rf ~/.cache/update-manager-core

sudo rm /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p

sudo rm /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/values

sudo update-apt-xapian-index --verbose --force

sudo update-apt-xapian-index --force

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install software-center ubuntu-desktop

sudo dpkg-reconfigure software-center --force

sudo update-software-center

sudo apt-get install --reinstall software-center

Then reboot and retest.