[Elecraft] Spectrogram / Xoscope

[Nick Waterman]

Fred (FL) wrote:
> I'm always puzzled why users would burden themselves
> with LINUX machines?

I thought this was way off-topic, so was going to reply off-list, then I
realised...

Quality, stability, efficiency, ability to understand how it works,
ability to fix stuff myself if it ever actually breaks, ability to work
my way, standard components, value-for-money, cheap add-ons, easy to
tweak to my own needs, fun to experiment with, great community, great
support, small, that's why I like Linux, and that's why I like Elecraft.

Big expensive mass-manufactured black-boxes that work THEIR way, poor
manuals, bad support, no realistic way to fix things without returning
to the manufacturer, nasty sealed hard-to-replace proprietary
components, BIIIG cost for something that really doesn't work so well,
expensive add-ons, expensive upgrade path, large, that's why I don't
like YaeComWood or Microsoft.

... yet in both cases, the "mass market" seems to previously have
favoured the closed, unmaintainable, expensive power-hungry option, but
both Linux and Elecraft are gaining in popularity, particularly among
experts in their field who know what they're doing, but increasingly
among day-to-day users too   :-)

Unfortunately Elecraft kit isn't FREE, or even "free plus packaging",
and initial set-up effort is much harder (but admittedly more fun) than
the black boxes, and the "Ikensu" boxes don't (as far as I know) hang
and crash regularly, or need re-installing frequently, so the analogy
had to break down somewhere   ;-)

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