On Wednesday 27 March 2019 14:47:02 Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 March 2019 02:29:54 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> > I want to  get my sister off her Macdows onto Linux. Any suggestions how
> > to deal with her long commitment to Quickbooks? Web searching for migrate
> > from Quickbooks to FOSS or Linux is not going well.
>
> Hi Felix,
>
> If she's going to use Quickbooks then she'll need some version of Win.
> Quickbooks since 2002(ish) does not play well on Linux.  See this answer:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/a/1085418
>
> Even if she's willing to give up QB for some other program (GnuCash, ??),
> it's generally considered easy enough to setup a Win 10 Virtual Machine so
> that a person should just stick with QB (especially if they need to
> send/share any financial data to someone else).
>
> Best,
> Michael
>

A much better idea is to switch to Linux, and give up the idea of ever getting 
rich enough to need that kind of software. 

Bill