I use Linux when I can, Win95 when I can't use Linux. I operate the
digital modes almost exclusively, and for the past few years have been
using the soundcard digital modes almost exclusively. For a long time
the most and the best software for those modes has been available only
in Windows versions, but lately the situation for Linux is getting
better.

My OS journey is probably a little different from most, as I was a user
of Unix time sharing before there was Linux. And the first time I owned
a PC was when a friend twisted my arm to get into Clover, which required
a PC AT class machine to run the modem and software. So I had to get
a used PC AT running DOS. I was also at the time using a PK-232 with a
dumb terminal in front of it. Soon after Linux was starting to look good
enough to use, so I bought a 486 machine to explore it. Then the K6STI
RITTY software became available, which required at the time a 486 or better
and ran under DOS, so I got a sound card for the 486 and made it dual boot
to be able to run RITTY. Since then through various machine upgrades I
have arrived at a Linux-only machine that I use for my work work, and
a dual boot Win95/Linux machine that I use for the radio. I also picked
up a Kachina radio, and the software for that requires Windows. So I
have a choice of running the TS-940S with Linux and gmfsk in most modes,
or with Windows and various pieces of software, or of running the Kachina
with Windows software.

I'm not smart enough to write a control program for the Kachina that runs
under Linux, and I don't expect anybody else is going to now that the
radio is out of production.

I also have a laptop with Linux and Windows ME - I used to have to travel
and used that with my portable radio setup
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