Thanks to both of you who replied, I understand now. I decided to use Exodus soft wallet on my laptop and then be able to move amounts to my Trezor hard wallet.
First time for everything so am just putting all the pieces together. Thanks for the guidance!
Take note Exodus is not an open-source wallet so no guarantee that the wallet is safe but since before I never heard any issue yet about this wallet.
For me, it's good if you only use it for receiving a small number of coins and send them right away to your hardware wallet.
Why not use the hardware wallet directly instead of using any 3rd party?
Thanks on the Exodus insight, agree on close source has less scrutiny.
I want to move my mining gains into a tradable system in order to start to do basic trading (not speculative). Since my first rig that came online was an HS5 (Sai), I chose Kraken for now because they can receive Sai tokens directly from the pool. We shall see how this goes for the other miners (BTC mining starts next week). Plus, Kraken is up 24/7 so pool payouts will happen continuously (I have it set for 1 payout a day).
For long term holds, I am thinking of a hardware wallet (seems Exodus has a ready Trezor hard token integration). But right now, I need to keep some kind of liquidity in order to pay the monthly electricity bill so it can't all go into hard wallet.
Learned alot from this, thanks!