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<p>On 2020-05-20 15:54, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">To do that, most will have to go purchase a copy of Windows. That's $150 down the drain.<br /><br /><br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On 20 May 2020 at 18:30 Tom Consodine via chirp_users <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /> Right now the only easy way to run CHIRP on Ubuntu 20.04 is installing<br /> WINE and then using the Windows version of CHIRP.<br /><br /> Tom ND5Y</blockquote>
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<p>I recently put the free VM from VMWare on my Linux desktop and bought a Win-10 Pro disk off eBay for $25.</p>
<p>It's kinda' clunky but not as clunky as Wine (to me.)</p>
<p>I bought a new laptop at Christmas with Win-10. I was planning to set it up for dual-boot, but I'm reading that Win updates like to overwrite the boot-loader so I might just leave it Win and live with it.</p>
<p>Benton 20may20<br />--<br /><a href="mailto:benton@siletzbay.com">benton@siletzbay.com</a><br /><br /></p>
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