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Check out MoneyDance. I have used it for a number of years and find it to be just fine. It is true cross platform (Java based. I just had some great support - exchanged emails with their support folks on Sunday! Rich On Fri, 2009年09月11日 at 03:15 -0400, JP Vossen wrote: > As I'm moving my wife over to Ubuntu, 2 of the problems are going to be > Quicken and TurboTax. I'll keep a VM for TT, but Quicken is more of a > day-to-day issue. > > I hate Quicken anyway, since they deliberately break stuff every few > years to force you to buy an upgrade you don't need. I refuse to do > that, so we're still using Quicken 2003. But my wife would like to be > able to download transactions, which is one feature they break on > purpose. I just noticed I had Quicken 2006 CD's laying around, but they > just broke that in the middle of 2009. 3 years to EoL is not acceptable. > > For now, Quicken 2003 runs flawlessly under Wine on Hardy (using the > updated PPA Wine). > > She wants to be able to download stuff, and we need something that can > print checks, since we still do a lot of that. And I'd prefer > cross-platform, just in case she has to go back to Windows (hope not, > but...). I also want something that is not full of bugs and is actually > maintained and supported. > > I've looked at GNUCash and I like it, except it can't print more than a > single check at a time, which is a show stopper for us. (LONG-standing > bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328936) > > KMyMoney is useless since it can't download or print checks at all. Not > sure I'd call it cross-platform either. > > Grisbi is a 0.x.x version, and does not look well maintained. > > That leaves MoneyDance, which is Java (yuck), and neither free nor open > source (yuck^2). But it is cross-platform, supported, and supposedly > does everything I need. I haven't gotten downloading to work yet, and I > think the interface is a tad ugly (and to be uglier than a GNU GUI app > like GNUCash is saying something). But it might work, though I'm > slightly worried about getting on another upgrade treadmill. > > What is everyone else doing (besides not printing checks anymore, yeah, > yeah, I know...)? Any other clues? > > Thanks, > JP > ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- > JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| http://bashcookbook.com/ > My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ > ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- > "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on > software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and > implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug