Thank you everyone for all your feedback. At the Drupal Code Camp here in Phoenix a couple years ago all I saw was Macs. Developers seem to like Macs. Maybe it has to do with having a Unix operating system that just works. I'm not disparaging Linux. It just takes a lot of knowledge to run Linux as your desktop O/S. I've done so for over 2 years and I really like Linux Mint. I'm just at a point where I want to spend less time maintaining my computer and focus more on development. Again thank you for all the feedback!! On 2016-08-25 13:47, Michael wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: MICHAEL BUTASH > Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:10 PM > Subject: Re: MacBook > To: Michael > > They're web services, Xero.com and FreshBooks.com, just hit the sites. > Sorry, probably should have been clearer about that. > > -mb > > On 08/25/2016 10:24 AM, Michael wrote: > >> Hey Michael.... how do you get Xero and Freshbooks? >> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Michael Butash >> wrote: >> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss