Philosophical Question

[Mike Starke]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:20:37PM -0700, Charlie Bullen wrote:
/_Hello, After much backing and forthing regarding whch distro to use on a day 
/_to day basis, I've finnaly decided to go with Mandrake. I'm real happy with 
/_it.  As I am moving all functions from Win2K to this box, I have to deal with 
/_my Quicken situation.
/_
/_I've installed wine and have Quicken running real well. I've also imported my 
/_data into gnucash and that seems to work fine as well. I've been a Quicken 
/_user since the early 90s, starting on MSdos, and have gotten very comfortable 
/_with it. 
/_
/_I'm inclined to want to keep on with it instead of learning a whole new 
/_program, but on the other hand I sort of like the dea of going all open 
/_source.
/_
/_What will win out, convienience or ideology?
/_
/_Are there any gnucash users out there that can give some feedback, pro and con 
/_on this application? My accounting is one of my mission criticle items so I 
/_don't want to make a mistake.
/_

I will never forget one thing my college prof.always taught me (roughly
paraphrased) "Computers are meant to speed and automate tasks...if you
are not using them for those reasons... then you are using them for the
wrong reasons.." I'm a simple guy... I use whatever works....and works
whenever I need it to.

I have yet to find an equivalent for Quicken's "categories:classes".
Simple as that. Quicken speeds and automates the proper classifiacation
 of my transactions, so I stick with it.

As for everything else, I have found a GNU replacement.

Just my 2 cents.

v/r
-Mike