Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Clayton Cornell <c.cornell@xxxxxxxxx>]

One thing you can look at is finding Linux native apps for what you are trying 
to do.  One thing you mentioned is getting Quicken to run in Wine.  Depending 
on what you are using Quicken for there are Linux alternatives - Moneydance 
or GNUCash for example... both of which can handle QIF files from Quicken.  
More powerful Linux finantial tools can be found in the software like Kapital 
from The Kompany.

For the most part, I have found the equivalent app in Linux for pretty much 
everything, and now use it as my day-to-day desktop.  The only time I boot 
back to Windows now is to play games... and even that is dramatically reduced 
since I installed WineX from Transgaming.  All other apps from Office type 
applications (StarOffice vs MS Office) to graphic manipulation (The GIMP vs 
Photoshop) to software development (Kylix vs. Delphi) I have Linux tool that 
does everything I want and need... often more so.

C.


On Tuesday 28 May 2002 21:13, Keith Jacobs wrote:
> Hey ... I used it for a while but it was too much trouble... Ask me your
> question I will be glad to help
>
> Well apart from email, the internet and perhaps star office there does not
> seem too many things to use linux for, other than as a server. I'm trying
> to use linux, so as to lran about it, with a view to selling it as a stable
> solution to my customers. who on the most part have problems with
> workstations but also use windows applications.
>
> I myself have tried wine, on my home system, but find it will not run some
> of my windows apps, quicken will run but has problems and family tree maker
> just gives up. So am constantly switching from windows to linux and back.
> It also managed to screw the drive with all my data.
>
> Ideally I'd like to get right away from windows not even having it
> installed on the system.
>
> So the real question is if you are not using wine what are you using to run
> windows apps in linux.
>
> Regards
> Keith Jacobs