<rant>

Re:  "It is a shame that more good, useful, and easy to operate software is not 
available for Linux. Notice that I said good, useful, and easy to 
operate!"


...and easy to install!  Many experienced Linux users aren't much help, either. 
 I spent several months getting Quisk installed on my Raspberry Pi.  Users on 
various blogs provided information complete with typographical errors, 
incorrect instructions that some "advisors" eventually admitted had not 
actually been tried and just might not work, and even insults like, "If you 
need to know how to do this then you will already know!"  Huh?


I don't find Linux to be the the idealistic place I am told that it is.  If all 
you want to do is use canned packages that are available using a "store" or 
apt-get, then it works mostly fine for new Linux users.  Most ham applications 
are not available that way, so old timers like me struggle.  BTW, I have used a 
lot of mainframe Unix software during my career.  The difference was that I 
didn't have to get it working.  IT did that!  I was paid to design products, 
not install software.


</rant>


Mark,KE6BB



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