On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 2:59 AM Ben Kamen <b...@benkamen.net> wrote:
> On 7/25/23 9:31 PM, R Losey wrote: > > > > I'm not afraid of compiling stuff (I design FPGAs and regularly have to > write the Linux Kernel drivers for my FPGA device designs and then the > userland software to drive it. Oy!) > > but I do like to run my financial stuff in a dedicated thin install of > windows in a VM on my main Linux server which I can get to from everywhere > via VPN tunnel back to my server with VNC. So there is that. > Noted. While I have built some apps under Linux, I attempted to build GnuCash once upon a time (before I knew about this list), and it failed... it failed badly enough that it corrupted my existing Linux install, and I could not run GnuCash at all. With this list available, I may try again sometime to do the build... I will need to set aside the time. > If you can get GnuCash running on Linux, it's nice that Linux already has > perl, so one doesn't have to install a perl environment (should you care > about online quotes). > > I started tinkering with it on my laptop which is Mint (with a Windows VM > via VBox) -- but really dug in deep with the install on the aforementioned > windows VM on my network's central Linux Server. > I don't know if you'll use the stock quotes, but on Windows, you have to install a Windows-based perl environment (Strawberry Perl, I think). Even then, it didn't seem to work well for me. I may have just given up too easily. But if you don't need this feature, windows will work great. For the last several years of using Quicken, I ran it on a Virtualbox VM running Windows. I gave up trying to get GnuCash to talk to various financial institutions; > I enter everything manually and routinely balance my accounts. It works for > me. > > > OK - that's good to know. A major reason I'm ticked at QB/Intuit is their > mucking with the sync stuff (when they don't have to) and the choice there > is, "If I'm going to manually enter transactions, then is moving to > something else even worth it. The whole point is to avoid the double entry > errors if possible.) > I used sync under Quicken, but only to check that I hadn't missed anything. From what I've read, it can be a bit of an issue in GnuCash, so I'm fine with entering things manually and reconciling accounts on a regular basis. > Thanks for the info though... I'm gonna keep tinkering for now. > You're welcome... Enjoy tinkering!! _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
