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[Michael Butash]

I found quicken to be pretty lame for the minute I tried it with a 
former accountant, and found it really didn't do anything I couldn't get 
in Xero accounting suite, a web-based product.  Far better integration 
as well with other apps like expensify and freshbooks.

I ended up with both Xero and Freshbooks as both have ups and downs, 
where freshbooks is awesome for invoicing, accounting, creates customer 
portals automatically to view work history, bills received/paid, etc, 
Xero is better at general ledger management and methodology.  Quicken 
seemed more like the old slug GM-like company product that is too big to 
fail (doing everyone a favor), as using even the enterprise version I 
wanted to stab myself in the eye.  There was nothing I missed from 
Quicken, and a whole lot more to love with others.

I've operated as a consultant in dozens of orgs across the years with 
linux, and I never found anything that couldn't be accomplished in linux 
really, minus a good visio replacement.  The only problem is when they 
just use garbage like lync and quicken is that is a vendor lock-in to 
micro$oft anyways.

Solution: Replace them.  I did, it is possible.

-mb


On 08/24/2016 08:22 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
> who was screaming that the post was irrelevant? I certainly wasn't. :)
>
> At the end of the day, Linux still needs a lot of work to be 
> considered to be a viable desktop production environment.
>
> can you get quicken for linux? what about Peachtree? How about a full 
> office suite that can do the same things that MS office can do? what 
> about some of the other mainstream office and production apps? are 
> there many equivalents or direct replacements? THis is the primary 
> problem I have seen with linux over the years. great OS support, but 
> lousy where it counts.
>
> -eric