[GNC] GnuCash preferred OS - Windows or Linux

[Ben Kamen]

On 7/26/23 7:37 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> Welcome to GNC.
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> I am on Windows 11 platform where I seem to find it that I get into less of troubles when it comes to getting it installed and, up and running. I have been versed in all three platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac) but I find it easier to work with it in Windows. There are some manual one time install intervention needed (installing Perl for example; figuring out Linux equivalent paths for customization and backups) but it is not that earth shattering as I believe lots of kinks has been worked out, documented here and there, there is user contributed work around if need to resort to it and this user group which is active.
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> At the end of the day, don't let GNC dictate which platform you want as more of let your utility of the platform dictate what platform to run it on. All three platforms are supported so you are in IMHO good hands, albeit different platform may exhibit different bugs or un-published features per release. I do now and then flip the platform between Linux and Windows as a convenience but stay mostly on Windows.

Got it.

> I use XML as the backend for storage which works well even considering that it is medium to large size book. It provides easiest ways to recover, share, fix and rollback (take a checkpoint or copy before "experimenting") should there be a problem.
That's good to know too. Thanks!

> I am covert from Quicken so I have learned great deal of lessons from conversion especially getting to learn double entry system - start with zero and end with zero 😊.
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> As a convert, I did lose a lot of automated download via direct connect or Quicken Web Express but since most financial institution allows download of transactions in OFX/QFX or CSV format, I simply just download it in OFX/QFX format and import to bring transactions up to date or I'll put together something crude in shell script to convert CSV to QIF format and import it as QIF format.
That's a good item as well. My bank allows CSV, QFX and QBO formats while my credit cards allow CSV and QFX.

If I have to do the downloads manually (as long as I avoid double entry of every transaction), that would work out fine too.

Thanks for the info,

  -Ben