Fwd: MacBook

[Keith Smith]

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 <michael at butash.net>
> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: MacBook
> To: Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com>
> 
> 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
>> <michael at 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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