[Elecraft] Spectrogram / Xoscope - closing comment

[Mike Markowski]

Yikes.  Can I retract my original question?  I sure didn't mean for all
this to start...

Remember slide rules?  The vast majority of slide rule users learned it
well enough to get the job done.  But there was the minority of guys who
loved the tool as much or more than using it for work.  Hence, the speed
contests & ingenius ways of using scales to quickly solve certain
classes of problems.  Similarly, there are the stereo buffs more
interested in the stereo than the music it reproduces.  Or the car nuts
who have more fun tweaking their cars than going places in them.  And of
course, the hams...enough said!  :-)

Same deal with OSes, as far as I can see.  Linux and Windows users
approach computer use with two different mindsets, or needs.  Different,
not superior/inferior.  In my particular area of work (R&D within elec
engr & comp sci arena), the army has decided linux is superior for what
we do since we need to tinker with hardware & software often.  Business
types in the very same building, on the other hand, are almost
exclusively Windows users.  Their expertise lies elsewhere & the
computer is a tool for them, not a gadget to be played with.

So all our viewpoints are correct, just different.  Let's please get
back to ham things.  :-)  And thanks again for the very helpful advice
on linux apps early in the thread!

73,
Mike ab3ap