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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