[GNC] GnuCash preferred OS - Windows or Linux

[Ben Kamen]

On 7/27/23 2:11 PM, R Losey wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 2:59 AM Ben Kamen <ben at benkamen.net <mailto:ben at benkamen.net>> wrote:
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>     On 7/25/23 9:31 PM, R Losey wrote:
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>     I'm not afraid of compiling stuff (I design FPGAs and regularly have to write the Linux Kernel drivers for my FPGA device designs and then the userland software to drive it. Oy!)
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>     but I do like to run my financial stuff in a dedicated thin install of windows in a VM on my main Linux server which I can get to from everywhere via VPN tunnel back to my server with VNC. So there is that.
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> Noted. While I have built some apps under Linux, I attempted to build GnuCash once upon a time (before I knew about this list), and it failed... it failed badly enough that it corrupted my existing Linux install, and I could not run GnuCash at all. With this list available, I may try again sometime to do the build... I will need to set aside the time.
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So far, on my laptop, the version is close (5.3 something) - so that's cool.


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>>     If you can get GnuCash running on Linux, it's nice that Linux already has perl, so one doesn't have to install a perl environment (should you care about online quotes).
>     I started tinkering with it on my laptop which is Mint (with a Windows VM via VBox) -- but really dug in deep with the install on the aforementioned windows VM on my network's central Linux Server.
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> I don't know if you'll use the stock quotes, but on Windows, you have to install a Windows-based perl environment (Strawberry Perl, I think). Even then, it didn't seem to work well for me. I may have just given up too easily.  But if you don't need this feature, windows will work great.  For the last several years of using Quicken, I ran it on a Virtualbox VM running Windows.
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Yea - mostly I do consulting and want to be able to enter invoices to sent to customers, track payments and other income or expenses.

Yea, running a windows VM with bare essentials is what I'm doing.


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>>     I gave up trying to get GnuCash to talk to various financial institutions; I enter everything manually and routinely balance my accounts. It works for me.
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>     OK - that's good to know. A major reason I'm ticked at QB/Intuit is their mucking with the sync stuff (when they don't have to) and the choice there is, "If I'm going to manually enter transactions, then is moving to something else even worth it. The whole point is to avoid the double entry errors if possible.)
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> I used sync under Quicken, but only to check that I hadn't missed anything. From what I've read, it can be a bit of an issue in GnuCash, so I'm fine with entering things manually and reconciling accounts on a regular basis.
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>     Thanks for the info though... I'm gonna keep tinkering for now.
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> You're welcome... Enjoy tinkering!!

Thanks for the comments/insight.