{"id":39,"date":"2025-06-12T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:26:23","slug":"permanent-linux-installation-until-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Linux Installation&#8230; Until It&#8217;s Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not counting my wife&#8217;s and son&#8217;s computers, I have ten different Linux systems around the house, two Mac laptops, and two Windows laptop. The only reason I&#8217;m even running Windows &#8211; one is for work, and the other is a shipping computer for my wife&#8217;s business where the label printer doesn&#8217;t work. I haven&#8217;t been since Win2k and avoid it whenever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That balance is being shifted a bit as I write this. My Ham Radio Linux system (&#8220;hambox&#8221;) was just reformatted, and I&#8217;m installing Windows 10 on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had just gotten Linux working on hambox with my IC-7100 and IC-7300. It wasn&#8217;t perfect however. The main apps I was using, Vara and VarAC, were difficult to set up and didn&#8217;t quite work perfectly with the hardware. It wasn&#8217;t stable, and other apps like WFView just didn&#8217;t work at all. Unfortunately, in the Ham world, Windows is king. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WFView is actually what put me over the edge. I want the waterfall view, and kind of central rig control (hopefully). In addition, when I set up the <a href=\"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/?p=29\">Custom Linux Remote Display Resolution in NoMachine<\/a>, it killed the sound that was being forwarded to my NoMachine clients. It&#8217;s not a huge deal when working modes like VarAC or JS8Call, but I&#8217;d like to be able to actually listen to voice once in a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s really nothing that I need Linux for, other than the operating system&#8217;s native X.25 support. So I decided to use my Raspberry Pi that runs DigiPi with my IC-7100 exclusively, and any traditional packet (2m and HF) I can do there.  Then the separate Windows hambox can run everything else &#8211; WFView, Vara, VarAC, FT8, JS8Call, codeplug software&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing me I&#8217;ll get it all set up, find one problem, and decide to switch back to Linux within a week. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edit: It&#8217;s complete and everything seems to be working well. I ended up using FLRig for VARA since band changes were changing the filter to filter 2 for no good reason (it was mentioned on a few forum posts but no clear fix). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Installed and working so far: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>WFView<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vara<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VarAC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FLRig<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FLDigi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JS8Call<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Todo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Double-check that remote sound works via NoMachine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WSJTX<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some logging software (this I&#8217;d rather put up a centralized service somewhere else on my network, like on Proxmox, if possible).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Ham Radio Linux system (&#8220;hambox&#8221;) was just reformatted, and I&#8217;m installing Windows 10 on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[16,12,10,11,18,17,15],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","category-computers","tag-ham-radio","tag-linux","tag-nomachine","tag-remote-access","tag-vara","tag-varac","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioussignals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}