Desktop Linux (fwd)
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at kinz.org
Wed Feb 25 14:17:44 EST 2004
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:57:36PM -0500, Chris Brenton wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 13:41, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> >
> > > Linux equivalent: GnuCash. It is quite nice, actually.
> >
> > Yes it is, but its not Quicken. My mom, and several other people won't
> > consider changing, so its got to be Quicken on Linux.
>
> And as I stated before, Quicken runs quite nicely on Linux if you use
> CrossOver Office. Its only $40 and allows you to run a ton of MS apps (I
> just loaded MS Visio this week and its running great).
Also gotta work w/Intuits tax software....
umm ...
"Mom - if you want to use Quicken, you have to go to this other company
and buy and install their product too, then Quicken will work."
Works for us geeks, but won't pass the "That's too strange test" for
real end users. Well - I can probably talk my Mom into it :-)
but not everyone else.
When it works w/Wine right out of the box, then it will pass the
"That's too strange test", or when there is a native Linux version
available. And when working with Wine - the fact that it is running
in a separate environment from the rest of the machine must be
completely invisible to the user.
Please reply only to the list. As far as I know I'm not setting
"Follow-ups" and I don't need or want two copies of the list traffic.
Thanks!
I'm already in the 900+ emails a day range :-)
If I am somehow setting follow up or reply to, (my posts to the list do
not seem to have these set but ... ) PLEASE let me know so I can fix it.
Again, Thanks!
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