Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-15 Thread William Cattey
Hi Derek, I'll weigh in here on two issues: 1. Today isn't really today. Although I love the duplicate feature such that I can log a check today that's the same as a previous one, I hate that the date it offers me is not today's date, but instead the date I started gnucash. I'm used to

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-15 Thread Rich Braun
Derek wonders: As a long-time GnuCash user and developer, I'm curious what exactly you mean by this. What UI issues do you have/see in GnuCash? And have you let the GnuCash team know about them? I haven't used GnuCash, but I did download and take a look 2 years ago when I opted for

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
Maybe. But it won't happen On 01/14/2015 03:26 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software or service -- like other countries do. On Jan 14, 2015 10:33 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org mailto:g...@blu.org wrote: On 01/14/2015 10:16 AM,

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software or service -- like other countries do. On Jan 14, 2015 10:33 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 01/14/2015 10:16 AM, Jack Coats wrote: Doing this system got me to understand US taxes. Convoluted.. Yes. Logical.. Yes[once you

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 01/14/2015 03:26 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software or service -- like other countries do. +1. Has someone filed one of those white house petitions on this? ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 08:26:36AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or you can use the web interfaces. This type of

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread 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 [...].

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jack Coats
I designed and wrote a corporate tax package for a Fortune 100 company in the late '70s. I worked very closely with a brilliant CPA. Together we designed and validated it on 9 months before relational databases were popular. It is one of the 2 or 3 big projects in, my career. It used IBM

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/14/2015 08:26 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or you can use the web interfaces. This type of software does not really

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote: bonjour On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. works for me, but one size does not fit all. It looks like the

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/14/2015 10:16 AM, Jack Coats wrote: Doing this system got me to understand US taxes. Convoluted.. Yes. Logical.. Yes[once you dig in deep enough]. Every tax simplification act has only added complexity. To truly simplify we must toss out all old rules and start the system over, not

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/14/2015 09:31 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote: bonjour On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. works for me, but one

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net wrote: On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or you can use the web interfaces. This type of

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
I personally find MoneyDance to be reasonably good and I have been using it for a number of years. In some cases where I have reported a problem, Sean Reilly got back to me quickly and solved the problem. Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or you can use the web interfaces. This type of software does not really lend itself to to Open Source. Why do you say

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Barrett
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

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-13 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: [lots about personal finance software] First a confession, I don't use any personal finance software. I view my statements regularly, but don't do any reconciliation of accounts and I have an accountant do my taxes...

[Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-13 Thread Rich Braun
Thanks for the comments about TurboTax. Glad I'm an HRB (formerly TaxCut) user; the two used to be indistinguishable but now it sounds like TurboTax is going in an annoying direction. When HRB bought out TaxCut a few years ago, I feared it would quickly go downhill. We'll see if Intuit gets

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-13 Thread john saylor
bonjour On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. works for me, but one size does not fit all. It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance; the future is cloud services. But really, I'm a cloud-security developer: