After waiting 6 months I gave in to the Windows 10 nagware, and upgraded my and my wife's Win 7 Pro machines.
Regardless of how one might compare Windows and Linux, both our conversions have been stable as a rock, apparently the best version of Windoze that we have ever had. Running ham stuff on Win 10 is a better deal now. It was a little spooky not being able to closely control the upgrades in Win 10, but that hasn't made any difference thus far. YMMV, but have a really good reason to go to Linux. You may want to try Win 10 before you invest all those resources (including your valuable time) in a conversion to Linux. 73, Guy K2AV On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Anthony Scandurra < [email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > WINE = *W*ine *I*s *N*ot an *E*mulator > > You don't run Windows in WINE. You run Windows programs that are then > presented the Windows APIs by WINE. Think of WINE as a translator, not an > emulator. > > I otherwise agree with your sentiment. > > I prefer to run apps in their native environment. Once my favorite > programs DXLab and N1MM+ are able to run in Linux natively, I will switch > to Linux in a heartbeat! > > 73, Tony K4QE > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Mike Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ok, I am not a Unix/Linux user. Years ago I did a little C programming > > on a real-time Unix box but have forgotten way more than I learned about > > that system (and C). > > However, I have to ask the question - what is the point of getting away > > from "windoze" by going to a Linux box and then immediately slapping a > > fully licensed copy of "Windoze", running under an emulator, on that > Linux > > box. It just seems not only counter-intuitive but counter-productive. > Since > > the majority of the apps that I wish to run are strictly Windows based, > it > > just seems to make more sense to run the real thing natively. If the > intent > > is to not add more to the Gates billions then you have defeated that by > > running under an emulator. > > > > Mike / W8DN > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
