Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-21 Thread js
On 09/20/2014 12:47 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: Money is kind of important so I recommend throwing FOSS allegiences aside for this one. :-) Likewise for taxes (I run TurboTax in that same VM). freedom is also important, but we each decide our own priorities. i have been quite happy with gnucash

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-21 Thread Mike Small
js js0...@gmail.com writes: for taxes, again, i have a simple situation of one income from one employer. but my solution has been to use the paper forms. as a web programmer, i just don't trust the other end ... of course, i'm probably in no better situation regarding privacy; nonetheless,

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-21 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Barrett wrote: Having tried all the Linux (and several of the Mac) options, none of them was as capable as Quicken... Can you elaborate? List a few specifics? The places where it fell short for you may be things most people consider obscure. One place where I bet the open source tools

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-20 Thread Daniel Barrett
I recommend biting the bullet and running Quicken in a Windows virtual machine on Linux. Having tried all the Linux (and several of the Mac) options, none of them was as capable as Quicken, which has been holding my financial information for several decades reliably. I am occasionally frustrated

[Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Rich Braun
For about 2 years, I've been happily using Moneydance as a Quicken replacement. It's a Java app that runs on any platform, and also has an iPhone app that (up until now) provided sync capability to my Linux server. Their 2014 release apparently broke wifi sync, and it's now deprecated. Here's

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Cole Tuininga
On 09/19/2014 02:35 PM, Rich Braun wrote: Your thoughts? Use btsync (https://www.btsync.com/) rather than dropbox perhaps? With btsync, you are your own cloud provider. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread William Cattey
Hi Rich (and hello to the rest of BLU), My partner has talked me into experimenting with gnucash. Up to now I've been using a couple spreadsheets that were operating as glorified check registers/stock inventory pages. I don't actually have a lot of experience with financial software. (I

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On 09/19/2014 02:35 PM, Rich Braun wrote: For about 2 years, I've been happily using Moneydance as a Quicken replacement. It's a Java app that runs on any platform, and also has an iPhone app that (up until now) provided sync capability to my Linux server. Their 2014 release apparently broke

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Richard Pieri
Money Manager EX + Unison. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Mike Small
Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net writes: So, it's 2014 and I'm still in search for an excellent personal-finance manager that works on Linux, Windows and/or Mac, with sync to/from mobile. And whose data can be kept on storage media owned by me, not some cloud provider. (I guess I could go back