GnuCash Features Survey

[Michael T. Garrison Stuber]

> one disapointment so far is that 50% or respondents are programmers, and
> another 25% are engineers.  Where  are the 'ordinary users'?

Regrettably, I don't think we get "ordinary users" until things are 
insanely easy to install.  Especially not when Windows is pervasive, and 
Quicken is easy to install.

Personally, I had been running Linux on some machines (my server, my 
gateway) and W2k on others (my desktops).  With the stability in W2k I 
would have been happy to continue using it as a desktop os.  Then I started 
reading about Windows XP and decided I didn't want give up my privacy to 
Micro$oft.  So when I got my new desktop machine, I decided to install 
Linux from the get go and convert to using it exclusively.  With going that 
route, I needed a replacement for Quicken, and running it under VMWare just 
seemed wrong.  That, and I had used a double column accounting system for 
years before switching to Quicken for convenience, so going back to a real 
accounting system was attractive.

I think it's going to be a while before we see lots of 'ordinary users.' 
But with peoples growing interest in privacy, Windows XP might be the best 
think Microsoft has ever done for the Linux community.