[Discuss] Finance software for Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

VMware should certainly be available for Linux indefinitely, but you
also can easily migrate your VM to VirtualBox or KVM without too much
difficulty/
On 01/14/2015 08:02 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> On January 13, 2015, Rich Braun wrote:
>> It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance [...].
>> I truly lament the state of this industry.
> +1 on that. I'm still running Quicken 2006 (old but very reliable) in
> a Windows XP VM (with networking turned off), importing stock quotes
> from Yahoo's API as CSV files, because there seems to be nothing
> better and things Just Work. In theory, this solution should continue
> to work as long as VMware runs on Linux, which should be a long time.
>
> As for tax software, I continue to use TurboTax on the desktop and
> fork out the extra $20 for the elevated version of the software
> because it works. Yeah, Intuit's approach to software upgrades is
> greedy, but as far as Pure Evil In The World is concerned, Intuit is
> barely a blip on the map. (I'll balance things out by donating extra
> to Doctors Without Borders this year....)
>

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