CHIRP Vs .......

[Tiercel]

Is it generally agreed that IF CHIRP is compatible with a radio, especially an HT, that CHIRP is preferable to using the manufacturer's specific software?  For one thing, if you have radios from various manufacturers, using one familiar software would illuminate the learning curve over using 3 or 4 different ones.

[Reloader762]

On 11/7/2023 at 12:08 PM, WRQC527 said:

CHIRP works on Linux also. Quite well, in fact. My understanding is that it was developed for Linux, but I wouldn't swear to it. I had it on a Raspberry Pi that I used as a desktop until the Pi died.

I dropped Windows OS when XP went dark and switched to Linux Mint, which I’ve used since 2015. A pretty easy way to do it is using this GitHub page, simply download the Chirp-Install.sh file to your computer, open a terminal in the directory where the downloaded .sh file is and run these two commands. 

chmod +x chirp-install.sh then run ./chirp-install.sh

It will download and install all the necessary dependencies and install the newest version of CHIRP.  To update to newest version I simply type into the terminal  pip install (space) then right click on the newest any.whl version and select copy link address and paste it into the terminal on the same line as pip install and hit enter.

Should look like this.

[WRYS709]

3 hours ago, WRZG694 said:

Programing for 8% of a market truly does not make financial sense.

Since you do not understand the difference between overall market share and market share for "programmable radio users"; you should definitely stick with Windoze!

Good luck!