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Have you tried to get Quicken running on Codeweavers? They have it listed as "Silver" for Quicken 2010.<br>Allen B.<br></font><br> <br>
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<b>From</b>: Cameron Purvis [mailto:cameron.purvis@gmail.com]
<br><b>Sent</b>: Saturday, January 01, 2011 09:44 AM<br><b>To</b>: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org>
<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
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Awesome suggestions, folks. And anything that can be bundled with my install, or trivially installed (I'm looking at you, Ubuntu app store) is ideal. Meta-work is a no-no. :)<div><br></div><div>My tactic is going to be running Quicken and HomeBank concurrently for about a month, and will probably give Mint a chance. We'll see which of these options is less hassle and how skeevy mint feels with my logins ... <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Rick Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:revrick56@yahoo.com">revrick56@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><p>I don't personally use financial software, but I also use Lighthouse Puppy OS. It includes HomeBank financial. Here is a link to that site: <a href="http://homebank.free.fr/" target="_blank">http://homebank.free.fr/</a></p>
<p>I'm not promoting it, just passing it on for info.<br></p><p>Rick</p><br>--- On <b>Wed, 12/29/10, Beddingfield, Allen <i><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Beddingfield, Allen <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?<br>To: "'<a href="mailto:tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org" target="_blank">tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org</a>'" <<a href="mailto:tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org" target="_blank">tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org</a>><br>
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 11:29 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>I hung on to Quicken 99 for way too long, and now I just use OpenOffice Calc spreadsheets. Would be curious to see what solution you come up with.<br>
That MoneyManager
looks promising...<br>Allen B.<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Cameron Purvis [mailto:<a href="http://mc/compose?to=cameron.purvis@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.purvis@gmail.com</a>]<br>Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 08:50 AM<br>
To: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org" target="_blank">tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org</a>><br>Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?<br><br>Hope everyone had a good holiday experience - sufficient quality and<br>
quantity food... :)<br><br>So the calendar end of year is upon me. I have used Quicken for<br>personal finances for a very, very long time and have upgraded every<br>couple of years. Still, it's like the MS-Office case - it does all<br>
kinds of wonderful things, of which maybe 20% are things I use. I'd<br>like to 'reboot' my financial management. I've tried a few things
in<br>the past but would love to hear from anyone out there who's doing<br>personal finance work - what tools do you use?<br><br>* Quicken - obviously the market leader. It has the benefit of being<br>the most widely-supported app in terms of bank integration for<br>
downloading transactions, et c. Despite this, Intuit seems to be in a<br>constant bug-fixing war. Version 2009 is much better but they<br>basically trashed the UI, at least to my notice after moving from 2004<br>(or 2005). It has lots of features that are nice but could probably<br>
be implemented outside the app like bill reminders, memorized<br>transactions, et c.<br><br>* GNUcash is the knee-jerk answer for OSS personal accounting. It<br>uses a different mental model from Quicken, and I may be too stupid to<br>
use it. GNUcash looks like an awesome accounting app but may be<br>overkill. Still, maybe it's time to cowboy up and learn it?<br><br>* Spreadsheets - several friends
of mine just use spreadsheets to do<br>this. It is tempting to even do a google doc so that I have access<br>everywhere but that gets close to the maybe-privacy-concern of...<br><br>* <a href="http://mint.com" target="_blank">mint.com</a> which is surprisingly nice but really doesn't handle cash<br>
transactions very well at all - which is a problem for dinosaurs who<br>still use cash a lot. Plus you are giving all your financial logins<br>to a third party. Still if you're okay with that, it's a very very<br>
smooth service. Gaping hole in their functionality is that there is<br>no concept of reconciling an account, so you can't 'close the books'<br>on a monthly statement, quarter, et c. Also really works best if you<br>
knuckle under and use THEIR categories. Android and iPhone app is a<br>bonus.<br><br>* Moneydance - non OSS but I tried this ages ago. Kind of like<br>Quicken's dumb cousin.<br><br>* <a href="http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/" target="_blank">http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/</a> MoneyManager EX - looks like very<br>
similar to Quicken. Anyone used this?<br><br>Who uses any of these? Do you have any others? I'd love to hear what<br>you prefer (or loathe). My goal here is to have a reasonably good<br>handle on financial ins and outs, the ability to use a relatively<br>
limited set of categories (utilities vs. groceries etc) for budgeting<br>purposes, some ability to develop basic reporting (am I overspending,<br>et c) and not spend too much time managing the whole thing.<br>Surprisingly, Quicken for all its features turns out to NOT actually<br>
shave much time off the process.<br><br>So - anybody got any input on this topic?<br>_______________________________________________<br>TUXaloosa mailing list<br><a href="http://mc/compose?to=TUXaloosa@tuxaloosa.org" target="_blank">TUXaloosa@tuxaloosa.org</a><br>
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