[GNC] Advise me please: go up to 5.4.2 or stay at 4.13?

[Eric Chapman]

Hi, everybody.

I did one year's worth of accounting for a very small business (market 
gardening) via GnuCash 4.13 last year starting about this time and 
ending with tax return filings. This year I've kept all the 2023 
paperwork on hand and organized and am ready to start inputting it into 
GnuCash. I do use some of the business features. Double-entry accounting 
makes sense to me, but I recall struggling with some things in GnuCash 
last year, mostly just newbie stuff with the interface (and the infamous 
way to change the width of displayed columns somewhere in the mix!).

I did use some business features (IIRC, A/R and A/P).

I do scan  through the posts to the GNUcash user list, so I know there 
were some issues with 5.x when it came out. But is 5.4 really up to 
every day work with no glitches?

Should I upgrade? Will 5.4 work OK on an Apple M processor running 
Sonoma (see details below)?

Any advice at all?

(I'm willing to just stay with 4.13 since it worked last year, but if 
5.4 is good, I'll move on up. I'm not usually an early adopter of software.)

BTW, in 2024, I hope to use GnuCash at least monthly to input the data … 
:) I need less of a year-end crunch, but the growing season was too 
hectic to deal with it this year.

Thank you very much!

-- 
Eric Chapman
GnuCash 4.13 on MacOS 14.1 Sonoma running on an Apple M3 Max computer.