[ale] Linux-based financial tools?

James Taylor James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
Mon Feb 8 13:50:47 EST 2016


I use Moneydance. It's java based and runs on linux, mac and even
windows. There's a client for iphone and kludge for android that works.
It's not free, but has been well worth the 40-50 bucks I've spent on
it.
May not meet your needs, but does what I need it to do.
-jt
 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> 2/8/2016 11:15 AM >>> 
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?



On 02/08/2016 10:59 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Bank of America also tells you you’re not liable due to their
policies
> 
>  
> 
> However, I think using debit cards is fairly stupid anyway.   Why
give random
> strangers (sales clerks/wait staff/online merchants) direct access to
your bank
> account?   Even if the bank gives you back your money you may still
have the
> hassle of having checks bounce and/or cleaning up fees for
overdrafts.
> 
>  
> 
> I much prefer to use credit cards and pay them off every month.   If
you have
> the discipline to do that you incur no interest charges.   You have
the benefit
> of seeing all the charges BEFORE you pay from your bank account and
can dispute
> any that aren’t right.  So long as an item is in dispute there is
no interest on
> it and assuming the dispute is successful there never will be.
> 
>  
> 
> One of the things I really like about BofA is they have a way to
generate random
> credit card numbers that I can use doing online purchases (or if
someone says
> they need a  card to confirm a reservation or the like).   Even
better is the
> BofA (ShopSafe) cards:
> 
> a)      Allow you to set a dollar limit
> 
> b)      Allow you to set the expiration
> 
> c)       Are only good at the first vendor that uses the card.  (i.e.
even if
> that vendor gets hacked the hacker can’t use the number anywhere
else).
> 

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