Crossover 4.2 Runs Quickbooks on Linux

Memorize writes "What's keeping you from switching your desktop to Linux? Linux has been able to run MS Office under Wine for a while now, but Codeweavers just announced Crossover 4.2 with support for Intuit Quicken and Quickbooks. I know that lack of a good bookkeeping app (other than Gnucash) has been keeping a lot of people from switching. It supports iTunes, too. What else do you need?"

Comments

I need...

[DeathPenguin]

>>What else do you need?

Games. Though I suppose a lot of people are content with Cedega. Still, that's an awful lot of versions of Wine to have just for compatibility.

If you run a finance app under wine, you're a fool

[Julian Morrison]

A finacial app is no use if you can't trust it 100%. Since they tested it on Windows, run it on Windows. Anything else is asking for trouble.

Your game glitches under Wine, it's a hassle. Your finance app glitches, it could get expensive.

Re:If you run a finance app under wine, you're a f

[anthony_dipierro]

What finance app can you trust 100%? The answer, of course, is none. One of the reasons they have these things called backups, you know.

Re:Mainly just painless installation

[MarkRose]

It shouldn't be difficult to restore your needed documents from backup. You do make backups of everything you care about, don't you?

Exactly

[Julian Morrison]

Not just incorrect calculations, but incorrect saves, incorrect loads, parially implemented system functions that don't do what the coders expected, harmless dangling pointers in Windows that bite you in Wine, etc etc. Not that I know of any such, but you can't safely assume they don't exist.

This is a generalization of: if you run a tested app on an untested configuration, it's no longer properly tested! That's just common sense.

Do your finance in OO.o spreadsheet or in GnuCash, or boot across to Windows. Doing it under emulation (a known-incomplete emulation, even!) is just stupid.

As a someone that has programed under Windows.

[LWATCDR]

" Not just incorrect calculations, but incorrect saves, incorrect loads, partially implemented system functions that don't do what the coders expected, harmless dangling pointers in Windows that bite you in Wine, etc etc. Not that I know of any such, but you can't safely assume they don't exist."
And you would bet your life that none of those errors exists under Windows? I would not. Frankly the windows API in known to be incomplete as well:) MFC has many known issues and goodness knows how many unknown issues.
A proper accounting system will have many checks that will also work under wine. While I would probably agree with you if we where talking about running a "life critical" system but for a simple accounting system like quick books or quicken? I wouldn't worry about it much more than I would worry about running it under Windows. BTW would you freak about running quickbooks under Longhorn when it is released? or a version that ran under 98 on 2000 or XP?