Maybe other people have had better success with TurboTax and Quicken via Wine or Crossover but I fought for days trying to get either of them to work correctly in either environment. They would both install without issue and sometimes start but there was always some type of problem that would surface and make the program unusable. I downloaded every possible add on using Winetricks to see if it would address the buggy issues but the problems continued. My ultimate, and unfortunate solution was to VirtualBox a Windows XP install for the programs and at that point they worked flawlessly.
I hope that others had more success. I am still pretty steamed over the incompatibility issues with those programs and that I was never totally successful at getting them to run flawlessly on a Linux platform. Tim Michael Robinson wrote: > My dad has a Fedora 9 box and a Windows 2000 box. > > His Windows 2000 box has dual PIII 750 mhz processors. > This box has a gig of ram, but it's PC100 ram. TurboTax > will not work on Windows 2000 anymore. Will WINE support > TurboTax? How about Crossover Linux? > > Windows XP is a pain in the tushy because support officially > ended yesterday and worse than that it still costs the same > that it did when it first came out. Has Microsoft heard of > depreciation? > > His Linux box is comparable to mine, an Intel D845PEBT2 > Pentium 4 system. I have Windows XP upgrade sitting on > the shelf that I could use to build a virtual machine I > suppose... wish I didn't have to go through the blankety > blank activation. It is actually installed on a 500 mhz > machine, but that machine hasn't been turned on for a very > long time. > > I'd like a solution that doesn't involve Microsoft Windows > at all, but short of Intuit releasing a Linux version of > TurboTax that might not be possible. > > A solution that involves WINE or a Linux version of TurboTax > is preferable, but if I have to set up a Windows XP VM I have > to. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
