![]() Apple menu is slightly different from Windows Start menu and provides access to limited features like System Preference (equivalent to Windows Control Panel), System updates and options like Shut Down, Log Off, and Sleep. Mac does not have Start button like previous versions of Windows, but all Apps are listed in OS X Dock. People who are more comfortable with user-friendly applications in Windows find it really difficult when they suddenly switch to a MacBook. No, it really isn't.Have you recently purchased an Apple MacBook or moved to Mac OS X from Windows operating system and looking for equivalent versions of certain frequently used Windows applications? Read below to find more… People delude themselves into thinking Windows is free. Based on the multiple threads on here over the last several weeks, I'd say it wasn't the least bit free. Oh, the upgrade to win10 is free, therefore I shall. ![]() I actually think Stu has the correct model, do nothing for free. If you get enough people who know how to design and write software and don't have ego problems that are committed to ending the Microsoft centric ham world, that goal can be achieved in pretty short order. So long as its one person working in isolation it'll progress only as fast as they are interested in progressing the effort. After I get done with the portable GUI to XPSSDR I will interface it to a logging program either before or after I interface it to my linear and rotor. DDUtil, excellent piece of code but how many people need a Swiss army knife? If someone knows design patterns and how to design to an interface, you'd have a portable and extensible beginning. Back in 2012 at the boxboro hamvention there was a breakout session on an all Linux ham shack. ![]() Rick is ex Microsoft and I don't know what Steve's story is, perhaps momentum, perhaps just so many thousands of lines of vb. I've spoken to Rick, I think that's the guy that bought hrd, and Steve of n1mm. Going back to my experience with pmnos back in the 80s to XPSSSDR, (cross platform SSDR) its **** near thankless. In this day and age there is no reason to be writing software with built-in vendor lockin, well, unless you don't know how to not. I know it's a lot of work, and often a labor of love.ĭoug, I agree with everything you just said, especially the last sentence. I applaud the work of those who are (or will be) bringing out SSDR alternatives for other operating systems, whether Linux or OS X or iOS or Android. Again, it just depends on how long you want to wait.Īll this to say jumping to OS X might not be as easy as just running one application. And to my knowledge there is nothing like DDUtil available for the Mac, so if you have hardware that only works (or only conveniently works) by the grace of DDUtil you may be out of luck for the moment. I certainly hope that will change in the future, but it's a matter of how long you want to wait. If you dabble in RTTY or CW contesting (which I have done for years) or meteor scatter or moonbounce (which I have only recently become interested in) you'll find very little support under anything but Windows. You just aren't going to find anything equivalent to, say, N1MM+ or WSJT under OS X. That's not to say there aren't good ones out there, but the selection pales in comparison to what is available under Windows. The reason is that Mac OS X is (and has always been) way behind the curve when it comes to ham radio applications. ![]() But when I got interested in SDR I replaced the Mac in the shack with a Windows box, and even with a Mac version of SSDR I'm not sure I'd entertain going back to OS X just yet. For the most part I succeeded, using programs like Don's Maclogger DX and W7AY's excellent cocoaModem. Some years back I made an effort to only use OS X in the hamshack as well. So I'm not a Microsoft fanboi by any means, and I am not an OS X detractor. And I develop Linux-based communications products for a living. I use Mac OS X extensively for video and photo editing. I have written OS X applications using Objective-C and Cocoa and Xcode. Let me preface this by saying that I have been using Mac OS X since 2002 starting with version 10.2.
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