[ale] Linux-based financial tools?

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Mon Feb 8 11:20:00 EST 2016


What features of Quicken do you want?

On 2016-02-08 08:15, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> What Linux-based tools do you use to manage bank, brokerage, and other financial
> accounts?
> 
> I've been looking for a replacement to Quicken since ... 1989. Haven't found
> anything except simple leger-type stuff.  Tried beancounter for a few months,
> but went back to quicken and their mandated every-3 yr upgrade/downgrade cycles.
> Since 2013, getting Quicken to run acceptably under WINE hasn't worked for me
> either. It is one of the last 4 things I cannot accomplish on Linux, sadly.
> * Quicken
> * Video editing with EDL cuts that can be manually validated efficiently; there
> are many video editors, but NONE, ZERO, NADA support EDL. VideoRedo is the tool
> to be replaced.
> * MS-Visio (cough - nothing is close and the 2003 version hasn't been improved,
> IMHO)
> * Presentation broadcasting/captures - OBS isn't stable on Linux, IME. Works
> great on Windows for some reason.
> 
> Everything else I do is done on non-Windows systems.
> Ideas?



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