Tax Package running on Linux?

Posted by Rob Lindauer on December 13, 2008, 12:59 am

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XS11E wrote:

> info@air-space.us (DA) wrote:

>> Rob, I'm in the same boat.

> Ditto, although Quicken is reported to "sort of" run in CrossOver

> Office, I don't believe TT will?

Yes, Quicken 2007 runs for me(albeit slowly, with many screen
repaintings) under CrossOver Office. CrossOver rates their support for
Quicken 2007 as "bronze," which as I recall means there are functions
that don't work (I haven't run into them, whatever they are).

I plan to look at the OSS personal financial packages to see if any is
usable given what I need to do. I looked at KMyMoney, but it doesn't
handle the categorization / classification of expenses I can do in
Quicken (and which I depend on). I guess I'll check out Grisbi and
GnuCash... RL
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Posted by Laura on December 13, 2008, 9:11 am

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> XS11E wrote:

>> info@air-space.us (DA) wrote:

>>> Rob, I'm in the same boat.

>> Ditto, although Quicken is reported to "sort of" run in CrossOver Office,

>> I don't believe TT will?

> Yes, Quicken 2007 runs for me(albeit slowly, with many screen repaintings)

> under CrossOver Office. CrossOver rates their support for Quicken 2007 as

> "bronze," which as I recall means there are functions that don't work (I

> haven't run into them, whatever they are).

> I plan to look at the OSS personal financial packages to see if any is

> usable given what I need to do. I looked at KMyMoney, but it doesn't

> handle the categorization / classification of expenses I can do in Quicken

> (and which I depend on). I guess I'll check out Grisbi and GnuCash... RL

Keep us posted on your results. I have client who is getting ready to
purchase a Dell PC with Ubuntu. No more windows for her. She currently uses
Quickbooks for her financials. We are considering GnuCash as a replacement.

Posted by XS11E on December 13, 2008, 3:08 pm

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> She currently uses Quickbooks for her financials. We are considering

> GnuCash as a replacement.

FWIW, I tried GnuCash, I was unable to properly import Quicken files.
Quickbooks may be different?

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Posted by Laura on December 13, 2008, 5:01 pm

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>> She currently uses Quickbooks for her financials. We are considering

>> GnuCash as a replacement.

> FWIW, I tried GnuCash, I was unable to properly import Quicken files.

> Quickbooks may be different?

We plan on starting from scratch with GnuCash at this point. I'll start with
the ending trial balance from her current file and move forward from there.

What was your impression of GnuCash?

Posted by XS11E on December 13, 2008, 6:40 pm

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>>> She currently uses Quickbooks for her financials. We are

>>> considering GnuCash as a replacement.

>> FWIW, I tried GnuCash, I was unable to properly import Quicken

>> files. Quickbooks may be different?

> We plan on starting from scratch with GnuCash at this point. I'll

> start with the ending trial balance from her current file and move

> forward from there.

> What was your impression of GnuCash?

Probably not entirely fair, I was comparing it with Quicken and didn't
really have much of an impression. I can't say I ever actually ran the
darn thing, I thought the interface was OK but since it wouldn't import
I didn't mess with it any more, I dumped Linux as I always have over
the last many years because of no Quicken, no TT.

NOTE: In fairness to GnuCash, MS Money and MoneyDance also failed to
import Quicken data. The problem seems to be the complexity of the
import with a lot of accounts and years of data.

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