[GNC] GnuCash preferred OS - Windows or Linux

[Mark at Lorimark]

I am a staunch Linux user, and came from the Quickbooks world as well. 
I am running a very small database, but have it in the sqlite, since 
that (for me) is very easy to work inside of if i need to poke around in 
the database (which I do).

I much prefer the 'double entry' approach to things rather than the 
bubble wrapped QB environment, and yes QB is getting expensive!

I can't imagine any functional difference between any of the platforms 
as it pertains to GnuCash.


On 7/25/23 15:15, Ben Kamen wrote:
> 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
> 
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