Quicken Personal for linux

[Chris Taylor]

is there a home version of Quicken for linux
Chris Taylor

 

[bjn]

is there a home version of Quicken for linux

To date, Intuit has been stubbornly pro-Windows, to the extent of releasing
Mac versions of Quicken that cannot even read the data files of Quicken for
Windows.

Your best bet would be Wine.

 

[gregg]

is there a home version of Quicken for linux
Chris Taylor

No, but there is a market waiting for it to happen. I haven't
successfully gotten Quicken to run in Linux with WINE either. When
people switch 100% to Linux they abandon Quicken for the alternatives.
It is a shame that they have to for both the user and Quicken. While
Linux is a small percent of the market, there may possibly be a good
percentage of this smaller market that would be interested.

Gregg

 

[Andrew DeFaria]

No, but there is a market waiting for it to happen. I haven't
successfully gotten Quicken to run in Linux with WINE either. When
people switch 100% to Linux they abandon Quicken for the alternatives.
It is a shame that they have to for both the user and Quicken. _While
Linux is a small percent of the market_,

Bingo! And that's the exact reason why Intuit doesn't pursue it! What's
the shame here is that there isn't anybody on Linux who can produce a
good enough product to compete with Quicken (and spare me the Gnucash!
Without good support for online banking what's the point?)

there may possibly be a good percentage of this smaller market that
would be interested.

Who cares? If the market is small enough, and it is, it really doesn't
matter if you got 100% of the small market! It's too small to start with!

 

[XS11E]

Your best bet would be Wine.

Informatin here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=107

 

[Chris Taylor]

is there a home version of Quicken for linux
Chris Taylor

got it to work this officeXcopy I think it is, it all works just fine
thanks for all the input

 

[gregg]

Bingo! And that's the exact reason why Intuit doesn't pursue it! What's
the shame here is that there isn't anybody on Linux who can produce a
good enough product to compete with Quicken (and spare me the Gnucash!
Without good support for online banking what's the point?)
Who cares? If the market is small enough, and it is, it really doesn't
matter if you got 100% of the small market! It's too small to start with!

Actually, there is a large enough market to explore, but that is
beside the point. GNU Cash is not a bad option and I think Moneydance
is pretty nice. So you don't get automatic updates. You merely have to
download and import files and use bill pay online. At least the bank
doesn't give you a surcharge.

I am not one to say that Linux is ready to explode on the scene, but
market share is increasing some with the influx of SLCM's or super low
cost machines that are entering the market. Really, its no big deal
whether Quicken enters the market or not. I guess the hard core Linux
advocates would probably not be interested anyway. I like Quicken its
a good product, but not a necessity.

 

[Andrew DeFaria]

Actually, there is a large enough market to explore, but that is
beside the point.

No that's exactly the point. If there were large enough markets to
explore Intuit would be exploring them.

GNU Cash is not a bad option and I think Moneydance is pretty nice.

The real market disagrees with you.

So you don't get automatic updates. You merely have to download and
import files and use bill pay online. What a bother!
At least the bank doesn't give you a surcharge.

Yeah you get what you pay for I guess...

I am not one to say that Linux is ready to explode on the scene,

Great because I for one have been hearing that for years. Listen I work
on Linux and Unix machines all the time. I grew up on them, not Windows.
I wish they would explode on the scene. However they aren't - period -
end of story. Perhaps that will change some time in the future but for
now that is not the case - as much as you want it to be, it's not.

but market share is increasing some with the influx of SLCM's or super
low cost machines that are entering the market. Really, its no big
deal whether Quicken enters the market or not.

Actually for many it is a big deal.

I guess the hard core Linux advocates would probably not be interested
anyway.

The hard core Linux advocates would not be satisfied unless it had a
command line interface!

I like Quicken its a good product, but not a necessity.

Perhaps to you but to many, many others it is a necessity. (Either it or
something better).

 

[gregg]

Great because I for one have been hearing that for years. Listen I work on
Linux and Unix machines all the time. I grew up on them, not Windows. I wish
they would explode on the scene. However they aren't - period - end of
story. Perhaps that will change some time in the future but for now that is
not the case - as much as you want it to be, it's not.

I never said I wanted Linux to explode on the market.

Gregg

 

[Andrew DeFaria]

Great because I for one have been hearing that for years. Listen I
work on
Linux and Unix machines all the time. I grew up on them, not Windows.
I wish
they would explode on the scene. However they aren't - period - end of
story. Perhaps that will change some time in the future but for now
that is
not the case - as much as you want it to be, it's not.

I never said I wanted Linux to explode on the market.

Yeah and I never said you said that. I said that I wish they would
explode on the scene. So then why do you mention it?

Meantime - learn how to quote properly!

 

[gregg]

Yeah and I never said you said that. I said that I wish they would
explode on the scene. So then why do you mention it?

Since you said, "as much as you want it to be, it's not," just wanted
you to know you can't read my mind and I didn't say it. Understand
English?

Meantime - learn how to quote properly!

I can quote just fine pinhead. Just using a poor newsreader at the
time and didn't feel you were worth the effort.