QUISK and linrad

I am new to the list. Ham, inactive for many years while playing in the software domain. Now I have put up an antenna and fired up my old rig. Very interested in SDR. Tried to run QUISK in f23 and it fails. Google search suggests others have tried and given up. Does anyone know how to run QUISK? Or should I just try linrad? Or gnuradio? Notably I do not have any SDR hardware yet, so thoughts on interesting (for a ham) SDR would also be useful. TNX Keith AA0FD