[phil66]

For years I have used Quicken Deluxe Personnel Finance Software.
It has become a part of my daily routine

Now I find myself wanting to use Linux on a full time basis But I want to bring Quicken with me.

I have looked into Codeweaver-crossofice which I consider to be a paid version of Wine I am not very pleased with either software

I have tried kmoney,gnumoney,grisbi and all the rest of the software suggested by Linux compatibles
The closest is kmoney2 but takes a lot of dependency's to run on a gnome desktop

Any suggestion on how to efficiently run Quicken from a Gnome desktop I will be willing to try anything once

[Cew27]

well tbh it is very hard to use a windows program using wine and have it run 100% and well, however due to google funding wine they have improved greatly and now even photoshop can run flawlessly and better than it can on windows
i dont know what software you are referring to as i have never used it but id say the best thing to do is either stick with windows and dual boot or find an alternative/equivalent application on linux

[spot]

I'm not sure I understood "I have looked into Codeweaver-crossofice which I consider to be a paid version of Wine I am not very pleased with either software" - what does looked into mean? Why are you looking at a paid Wine?

Have you actually tried running Quicken on a linux/wine box? What happened?

[spot]

Okay, I've a better idea of what I'm talking about this time. I went and looked at what Quicken is. Quicken's what those people at Intuit make. I've actually installed Quicken in the past but I'd forgotten the name.

There are some systems that simply aren't ever going to fit into linux until they choose to do it, and I've been and looked at the Intuit site and believe me, those people haven't the slightest intention of letting their customers stop using Microsoft as their client platform. I've seen the signs on other systems and other operating systems for fifteen years on and off, it's unmistakeable. I bet Microsoft own a large chunk of Intuit, that's been the main reason on previous occasions like HP owning a large chunk of Novell was. It makes for awful management choices.

You're in one of those vertical field traps. In order to use Quicken you must have a Microsoft client. Even if some crafty sod slips one over on Intuit and bodges a way to get one of their products running under Wine it's one product out of many - it may well not be your Deluxe Personal for example - and it's for that one year's release. It might work for Quicken 2016 De Luxe Personal but that has nothing to do with whether it'll continue to work for Quicken 2017 De Luxe Personal.

You have a very limited set of alternatives to keeping a Microsoft client to run it on.

Option 1 - buy Intuit and sack the bastard responsible for this lousy decision.

Option 2 - there is no Option 2.

[Cew27]

also cedega is aimed at gamers whereas wine is all round

[phil66]

Hi Spot

All the articles I have read about Intuit and a Linux Quicken release are as negative as yours.

I have narrowed my choice to KMYmoney and Money Dance

I installed Money Dance 2006 while still using Breezy 5.10 and could not get a backup to open so I could read it. After about 25 threads in forum and numerous e-mail I finally gave it up.

Installed kmymoney on dapper 6.10 last year It was not close enough to Quicken. When I transfered files from Quicken to kmmoney they were all scrambled It took quite a bit of work to reorganize

My last question on this subject is has either of these programs improved over the past year and is the cost of money dance make it better than kmymoney

[Cew27]

kmoney is for kde so would work better on the kde interface, why not give them a try again after all it wont cost anything

[spot]

Phil, the Quicken on Microsoft solution really is essential for a lot of people. If they have an accountant, for example, it's madness to end up paying an extra couple of days professional consultant time a year because the guy's completely familiar with Quicken but not with the obscure solution you decided was adequate. Vertical market packages really do demand their own operating environment, there's no getting round that.

[johng]

I run Quicken 2008 in VMware Server (free) on Fedora 7. Was using Quicken 2005 with Crossover, but Quicken will stop allowing online updates at the end of this month.