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 [...]. >> 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 API as CSV files, because there seems to be nothing > better and things Just Work. In theory, this solution should continue > to work as long as VMware runs on Linux, which should be a long time. > > As for tax software, I continue to use TurboTax on the desktop and > fork out the extra $20 for the elevated version of the software > because it works. Yeah, Intuit's approach to software upgrades is > greedy, but as far as Pure Evil In The World is concerned, Intuit is > barely a blip on the map. (I'll balance things out by donating extra > to Doctors Without Borders this year....) >
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