Budget/Personal Finance software

Concordedly

Concordedly

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I've only dabbled around back in the day with Microsoft Money 2004. Since then I haven't really used a personal finance management program. Now that I'm on my own, debt-free, I want to begin making a nest egg. I was wondering if you have any direct experience with such and such software that you would recommend. I don't need perfection, but I need basic budgeting tools, something that might be able to categorize my spending, projection and saving tools for the future, and I would like to be able to import my online banking to the program. I've never used quicken, but a lot of old people I know use it! :D

So CF, if ya got tha paper, n manage that paper on tha computa, lat me knoooo!

[Excel does not count as a personal finance software, it is pretty amazing at basic budget calculation but I want something nicer]

Thank ya,
Timmeh!
 
I have been using micrisoft money and i love it... but i'm getting ready to go to linux dmgrier what is the program you suggest?
 
It is similar to quickbooks called gnucash. Seems pretty easy to use and it comes with a built in tutorial, I am still learning it. I would recommend ubuntu. It is a very well designed OS and has a lot of support for hardware, devices and software. I actually find it easier to use then windows, I run my mp3 players on there, a bunch of software for for music and movies, editing, develpoment tools (still learning) and I even run windows games on there like wow and games by steam.

You guys should try a dual boot, you may like it. You may be like me and find everything you want to do on a computer on ubuntu. There is just about a windows equivelant app for linux. I do like windows ( I don't use it anymore) but I enjoy how much customization there is to the OS interface of ubuntu, and it is easy to do. Install package and apply.
 
I also found this program for linux called "Kmymoney" which is suppose to be very close to MS money.

If you didn't know all this software is free.
 
Yeah there is and I love it. Can't see why more people don't use linux. I was amazed at the amount of software out there, and I would say 90% of it is pretty good quality software though.
 
There are some key programs I use that have either just recently allowed for linux, and some that still do not run on linux. Until all programs do, I find there will always be a Microsoft crowd.
 
Here is a screen shot of that Kmymoney, has a really nice interface and looks like it has all the function's of ms money or quick books.

By the way that is not my actual checking account.
 
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