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I asked this in another thread, but it deserves its own, I think.

What do you Linux folks use to run your home financials? I'm still using Quicken 2010 because that was the last non-mobile version. That forces me to stay with Windows. (I've tried the crossover/bridge with Linux to run Quicken but it wasn't very good.)

I've looked at the cloud-based Mint (different program than Linux Mint) but I don't completely trust putting all my bank and credit card accounts and passwords online. They claim it's secure, but so did all the major companies that have been hacked and user data stolen.

Paper. Faster, easier and always online. But then I used to be an accountant. I'm not at Trump level. If I was I'd hire some weasly looking guy to handle my bimbo payments.

Mint is has been secure for me for a couple years. Only trouble is keeping it up to date with info to allow it to access your accounts. Seems like I'm always updating.

What OS are you running, urban?

It's been a while, but GNUCash seems to be OK. It runs on Linux or Windows.

I'm not a huge fan of Linux. I've had it on several machines and probably won't do it again unless I'm just going to load it and never change it. Resolving library dependencies is more than I care to screw with and seems much easier in Windows.

I don't want any "double entry" accountant-level headaches. I just want a Quicken-style program that tracks stuff and writes checks.

Keeping everything updated with Linux can be a pain, if you're not dedicated enough to it.

What kind of issues have you had? Other then Nvidia video cards being a PITA I've had no trouble with Linux Mint 18.3 and for the last couple of days 19.3 since I just updated it. I would say it definitely not quite as user friendly as Windows. I don't ask for much in a computer though either. Browse the internet, read E-mail and listen to music.

Golf pencil and a yellow legal pad

I thought with old people it was always “blah blah blah I’m on a fixt income”

Shouldn’t you already have it down pat what’s coming in vs what’s going out

Pornhub will now offer closed captioning for 10.95

Add that into your quicken

Along with GnuCash here are some other ones to look at.

https://opensource.com/life/17/10/personal-finance-tools-linux

Applications built for Enlightenment vs Gnome vs KDE, installing & upgrading apps in general. Damn, I think I even had library problems MySQL, Eclipse and Netbeans. It's always been a total PITA and it always seems like I spend more time reconciling libraries than I do actually using the machine.

The only thing I've had to do to a Windows machine lately (Win 7 & above) is install new versions of the C++ libraries and .Net. They even run with the old ones installed.

Rocky, I'm looking at the software manager on Mint, searched "personal finance". Here are the titles of programs, maybe you can search for info. It won't let me copy and paste the description.

Kmymoney- "operates similar to MS-Money and Quicken"
Grisbi
Skrooge
Wxbanker

Well, I may have made the issue moot. I downloaded Linux Mint 19.3 and installed it. I thought I set it up as a "dual boot" with Win 10 still on the drive. But when I reboot, I don't get the option as to which to boot to. If Win 10 is gone - and all of my photos and documents with it! -- I may have screwed the pooch.

Well not really rocky, if you restore win10 from a clean install ISO file you can probably get back to where you were off of your latest back up. That is if you made one.

Might also go into the bios and check the boot menu, maybe it will list Win 10

Before you do anything, see what partitions are on your disks. For instance, run `lsblk -f` Hopefully, your M$ partition is still separate and intact. It may be that your bootloader needs to be set up for dual boot.

Nope. Oh well, count me as a Linux user!

Fortunately, I had all my photos and documents saved to a removable drive. Imported them and nothing was lost (WHEW!) Firefox also loaded with ROBOFORM intact, so I didn't lose any of my many many complex passwords (WHEW AGAIN!)

I also went to MINT.com and set up an account there. All this took about three hours.

Rats!

To be clear, when I said M$ I'm dissing Microsoft, not telling you to look for 'M$' in the output. It would be 'msdos', 'vfat', or likely something else. I'd probably recognize it if I saw it. I'm not sure of your level of Linux experience so I wanted to follow up in case there's still a chance the data and OS are still intact.

Can't tell you anything about Mint. But, I quit using Linux years ago for the reasons I stated.