{"id":1162,"date":"2010-03-12T04:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bililite.nfshost.com\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2010-03-12T04:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:35:40","slug":"the-quicken-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/the-quicken-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quicken, the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've been using Quicken for years, since Quicken 97 on Window then Quicken 5 on the Mac and then Quicken 2001 when I got my iMac. The problems is that Intuit doesn't upgrade Quicken, it replaces it<\/a> each year with a version that has more frilly bells and whistles and less real utility<\/a> (especially on the Mac<\/a>; just look at the \"Using a prior version of Quicken Mac?\"). And the datafile is often different from the old file, so stuff gets lost with each \"upgrade\".<\/p>\r\n\r\n

So I've kept my current Mac (a blue & white G3<\/a>, the \"Mickey Mouse\" one<\/a>) just to be able to run Quicken 2001 under Classic. I can't upgrade to an Intel Mac, since Classic won't work. And I want to balance my checkbook while talking to my wife, not only downstairs in my basement office<\/a>. So I wanted something I could run on my dual-boot (XP and Ubuntu) laptop.<\/p>\r\n

I've been looking at alternatives to Quicken for 5+ years, but with 20 years of data I was too scared. Until now. I've been using gnuCash<\/a> for just a week now, but it seems to everything I need it to, including importing all my data, even from multiple investment accounts, from Quicken's exported QIF file. I haven't done any complicated investment things, so I don't know how well that side of it works.<\/p>\r\n

Strong points<\/h4>\r\n