| Jeff Abrahamson on 2 Feb 2006 02:20:47 -0000 |
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:10:50AM -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > [27 lines, 108 words, 904 characters] Top characters: _enrioa\n > > I am having trouble finding something suitable to run under Linux. > > * GnuCash - clunky interface; much too powerful and business > oriented for my personal needs > * kMyMoney2 - very nice interface, but very, very poor support for > budgeting, bill tracking/accounts payable, and custom reporting. > > Anything else to recommend? > > Has anyone tried running Quicken under wine or Crossover Office? Although it sounds like this has been well resolved, let me add a note, as I used gnucash 1.4 through 1.8 for several years for personal finances. The double entry system was easy enough to figure out and meshed well with my anal retentive habits. My two issues were the following: 1. Launch time is horribly slow. 2. Gnucash does not save as it goes, writing instead a log file of what has happened. This is not what I would expect of such an app, but fine. If gnucash dies unexpectedly (typically due to power failure, gc itself was very stable), the log is not replayable. So remembering to save was critical. This feels very 1980's to me. Actually, emacs has known how to replay it's autosave even since the 1980's... I should add why I no longer use gnucash. I realized that the only reason I needed accounting software was for tax reporting. I imagined it would be nice to run all sorts of queries on my personal finances to help me visualize my spending, but I am sufficiently frugal that I finally chose not to waste my time determining how I was failing to waste my money. I now use a spreadsheet that has columns for those items I wish to track for taxes. I determined that the time I spent balancing my checkbook was not worth to me the opportunity cost of leaving some extra money in the account to buffer against overdraft. (The bank rarely made errors. I, on the other hand, did make record keeping errors, so my time was spent correcting my own errors, errors I can longer make.) Thus, my endorsement of gnucash is nearly without reservation. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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