<div dir="ltr">Well all of that said, I would still get me a little ol' machine that will run some<div>light version of Linux be done with it. </div><div><br></div><div>Oh by the way, Linux may not be DESKTOP mainstream but almost every</div><div>flat screen TV, home router, GPS and other "smart" devices run on it. Add the</div><div>Android (Linux kernel) and I am sorry but I think that dealing with the pain</div><div>and agony of MS windows is just not worth it when my Linux boxen just keep</div><div>going, and going and going and going... </div><div><br></div><div>You could always get a RPi and run it on that, I have one I use exactly for</div><div>that so I can have something small to run Chirp on for those times when I</div><div>want to use a tablet or phone to program a radio...</div><div><br></div><div>So yes there are plenty of alternatives, but you have to be willing to look at</div><div>those alternatives, the authors chose and chose well, I have some DMR</div><div>radios and all of them fall into M$ hell in one form or another, I generally</div><div>try to use them on Wine, but they are all cantankerous. Chirp just works,</div><div>(Not for DMR but that is a whole other can of worms) </div><div><br></div><div>BIG THANK YOU TO THE GUYS WHO WRITE THE CODE!! KEEP IT UP</div><div>IT IS VERY FINE CODE. </div><div><br></div><div>I had to deal with Windows in various industries, it was a real education in</div><div>how something so messed up can become so pervasive just because the</div><div>organization behind it is more of a marketing org. </div><div><br></div><div>My mom has a Win 10 machine, the applications will not talk to the printer,</div><div>but the printer application will do so, all of the applications can SEE the</div><div>printer, they just cannot talk to it. I tried to fix it, the logs were obnoxious,</div><div>she brought in someone paid to fix it, he came way and said "there is</div><div>something wrong with the OS". I am getting ready to move her to Linux</div><div>and stop that sort of thing. </div><div><br></div><div>As amateur radio ops we need to be more open, when you are stuck on</div><div>one OS, it is like being in a mono-culture country, when that particular </div><div>mono-culture ag product gets a plague the whole country is up a creek.</div><div><br></div><div>I can run Chip on LInux (prefered) probably most any other Unix based</div><div>OS without too much work, Mac and if needed Windows... I have tried</div><div>not to be mono-culture, but have my preferred solution. </div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nigel@ngunn.net" target="_blank">nigel@ngunn.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">However, most of my radio require TX and rx on one wire so I guess there is an alternative for that.<br>
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> There's always the convert the cable for $1.50 solution.<br>
> <a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_ProgrCable.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_<wbr>ProgrCable.php</a><br>
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