MoneyDance vs GNUcash

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.6K blaze of typing glory, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Well, the New Year is upon us. I feel the need to start tracking my
> money, again. With the kids mostly out of school, we may even have
> some disposable income, but, it's impossible to say without better
> records. Does anyone have experience with either MoneyDance or GNUcash
> they would like to share? I can buy MoneyDance for $20.00 from the Lindows
> warehouse. GNUcash is free. But, I am not adverse to paying for software.

I'm giving the free download a try, but, after 30 minutes of working
with it, I'm pleased. It's pretty straightforward. The UI is a little
awkward at first, but I think I could get used to that. It imported
a loose QIF file exported from MS Money with no problems. I couldn't
see how to delete transactions, but that's probably not something I
really want to do too often. For $30 (from the Moneydance Web site),
it's hard to go wrong, and there appears to be a mailing list for
support.

GNUCash is free, but a quick look at the dependencies if you don't
have GNOME 1.4 installed makes easy for me to say "Nice program, but
no thanks."

Kurt
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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States.  The only thing is
-- I could be just as proud for half the money.
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