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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