I don’t use the business features, just my home finances. GC is absolutely wonderful, and open source and free. Is it perfect, nope, but for what I need it’s perfect! There are some areas that need work, some added features etc....
The developers do an excellent job of maintaining and moving the project forward. I left Quicken many, many years ago, never went back! I used quicken in the early 90’s. Give it a try! D Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:46 PM, Ken Pyzik <[email protected]> wrote: > > David -- for all of us little guy entrepreneurs -- I say "AMEN" to your > comments. I converted from Quicken to GNUCash about three years ago -- and > I have never looked back and have saved enough $$ to buy a whole of things I > would not have been able to! > > A BIG THANK YOU! - to you and the whole GNUCash team for all you do! -- > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of David Cousens > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 1:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GNC] GNUCash becoming unusable ..v3.4 > > Diane, > > I think you have missed a few points about GnuCash. > > GnuCash is not a commercial program maintained by a company to make a > profit. It is a totally volunteer effort to produce and maintain and > document GnuCash. > > GnuCash is free - you will not be charged for the bugs. As in most of the > Linux world, you can generally be sure if something is broken, i.e. it stops > the program from working or produces significant errors, it will get fixed > pronto. If it is inconvenient in a major way it will get some priority. If > it is a minor inconvenience or can be worked around it will be a lot lower > down the priority list. > > All programs suffer to some extent from scope creep in that there will > alsways be a user who will want it to do something that it wasn't > originally planned to do. GnuCash has one brake on this - no one is paid to > make it happen. If you want it and no-one else involved in the programming > needs it as much as you do, then you had better live with it as it is, find > a product which better meets your needs or start to learn how to program.. > > No matter how good a programmer you are, you will never get any significant > program working flawlessly unless it virtually does next to nothing. (That's > behind a major ideal/principle in the Linux world of doing one thing and > doing it well). > > Fully accurate and documented software, if it ever exists, requires a decent > integrated team of fulltime programmers and documenters (these are ususally > paid, hopefully well paid, and don't generally have other full time jobs). > GnuCash is admittedly not that well documented. There are a variety of > reasons for this including a small core development team who really don't > have time to do detailed documentation, which is left largely to some of the > user base. Most of us have not written the code, some of us have some > programming experience not necessarily on GnuCash. Inevitably this leads to > delays while new features get documented, and unfortunately some never get > documented formally. if you want to use Gnucash you will need to trawl > through the archives of the User forum and the Wiki where a lot of newer > features are usually "documented" first. You will also likely spend some > time asking questions on the forum until you are familiar with the way > Gnucash works and have found out how to td the things that you knew how to > do in some other software that GnuCash does a bit differently. > > Gnucash is Opensource software built largely using open source libraries for > specific functionality. If it were not the relatively small volunteer > development team would be unable to maintain it. In some cases progress is > limited by the rate at which development occurs in the underlying libraries. > This is not unique to GnuCash - many commercial programs also use the same > or similar libraries. Whenever a new library version is introduced, despite > the best efforts of the library developers, there is a risk that a slew of > new, usually minor, bugs will be introduced. This alone occupies a lot of > the developers time. > > The core of GnuCash which deals with its integrity as an accounting program > is fairly solid. It is generally far more flexible than other commercial > accounting software I have used. It's ability to edit transactions directly > usually means you can do virtually anything you need to be able to do, but > you will have to understand what you are doing, not just follow a procedure > you have no control over. > > This means GnuCash is not for everybody. If you can't live within the above > restrictions then it is possibly not the program for you. If you are running > a commercial enterprise of reasonable scope, you can generally afford to pay > for commercial software and to have it customized to meet your specific > requirements. GnuCash really fills a niche where this is not necessarily the > case. > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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