Hey Michael.... how do you get Xero and Freshbooks?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> 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

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