[bacchusracine]

Ubuntu-Mate user here.

I can't speak for Linux Mint, but last few times I tried to use Brasero it was issue after issue after issue with some kind of lower level driver thing. I installed the missing libraries, still nothing. Tried searching for a fix and found nothing that could resolve my issue with Brasero. I installed K3B and it just worked, so that is what I do now.

Possibly the parent poster's uncle ran into something like this and gave up instead of trying a KDE application?