[GNC] GnuCash preferred OS - Windows or Linux

[Ben Kamen]

Hey all,

Noob user here just getting started with GnuCash (as QuickBooks Desktop has gone from about $66/yr to almost $600 in Intuits efforts to push users to SaaS online and I refused to put my financial info on "the cloud" -- file under "Equifax protects credit info with login -> Admin:Admin").

So --

That being said, I have Linux systems. I have Windows system.

I have Windows systems running Linux VMs and Linux systems running Windows VMs.

I really dig the idea that GnuCash can use MySQL and might set that up once I get used to GnuCash.

But first, am I better off running it in Linux or Windows (It looks like the answer is Linux from what I've see of the Wiki).

And while I have a super basic setup configured, the first thing I'd like to test out is my banking connection.

I think there's a dead link in the wiki:

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings#U.S._Bank says:
> U.S. Bank
> Fee $3.95/month for home user, $9.95-12.95/month for business (See Bank With Quicken).
Which points to a 404 page.

It *looks* like more useful information might be found here:

https://www.quicken.com/support/important-notice-quicken-users-us-bank-accounts-avoid-mistakenly-migrating-direct-connect

but I might be wrong.

Anyway - as mentioned, I'd be coming off Quickbooks not Quicken... but in Quickbooks, USbank lists as PFM-DirectConnect. Not sure if that's the same.

SO -- to setup/test/troubleshoot my US Bank connections, should I be emailing the AqBanking list or is that something to discuss here as well?
(it also seems like the AqBanking list of banks when doing the setup yields no results typing in the search bar - I'm assuming that's due to lacking the list... but

LIke -> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings lists my bank. Is that all I need?
There's also ->    wget http://www.jongsma.org/gc/bankinfo/getfidata.sh.gz which seems broken.

It resolved, but there's nothing running on port:80 - So  perhaps a note to the Wiki is recommended?




Thanks a bunch,

  -Ben