Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2004 09:50 AM
I found myself in a similar position. I'm a typical home user, although I don't use my computer to play games, and Quicken is my most used program. I began using Linux nearly 3 years ago.
Initially I dual booted between Win 98 and Linux. My Linux experience quickly proved how much better an operating system it was compared to Windows. To solve the dual boot issue, I eventually purchased Win4Lin for running Quicken 99, Quicken Financial Planner, Tax Act, and Lotus Smartsuite.
This worked wonderfully for 2 years until my Quicken 99 environment made Win4Lin/Win98 unstable. I had experienced this same kind of crashing problem under pure Win98 before going to Win4Lin.
In a moment of desperation, I tried my unused copy of Quicken 2002 under the trial version of CrossOver 4.0, and the results were more than acceptable. I've upgraded to the full version of CrossOver and am once again a happy Linux convert.
I would gladly purchase from Intuit a native Linux version of Quicken. A Linux version of TurboTax would get me back as a tax software customer once again. But as Robin has experienced, Intuit has completely ignored my suggestions to port their products to Linux. Consequently, I see little reason to purchase ANY of Intuit's current or future products and will just continue to use the software I have. GNU/Linux (Libranet), Win4Lin, and CrossOver more than meets my home desktop needs!
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Re:Same for Quicken and TurboTax
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2004 09:50 AMInitially I dual booted between Win 98 and Linux. My Linux experience quickly proved how much better an operating system it was compared to Windows. To solve the dual boot issue, I eventually purchased Win4Lin for running Quicken 99, Quicken Financial Planner, Tax Act, and Lotus Smartsuite.
This worked wonderfully for 2 years until my Quicken 99 environment made Win4Lin/Win98 unstable. I had experienced this same kind of crashing problem under pure Win98 before going to Win4Lin.
In a moment of desperation, I tried my unused copy of Quicken 2002 under the trial version of CrossOver 4.0, and the results were more than acceptable. I've upgraded to the full version of CrossOver and am once again a happy Linux convert.
I would gladly purchase from Intuit a native Linux version of Quicken. A Linux version of TurboTax would get me back as a tax software customer once again. But as Robin has experienced, Intuit has completely ignored my suggestions to port their products to Linux. Consequently, I see little reason to purchase ANY of Intuit's current or future products and will just continue to use the software I have. GNU/Linux (Libranet), Win4Lin, and CrossOver more than meets my home desktop needs!
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