Side note: anyone got recommendations for business software? I've started browsing the FOSS community here for ideas but I'm not sure what QuickBooks alternatives exist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A quick Google shows Quickbooks to be cloud-based accounting software. For FOSS accounting, GnuCash exists so you could try that (it can also run on Windows and macOS). However, it's unlikely to have feature parity so if you like the added convenience that Quickbooks offers, see if you can use Quickbooks in a browser. Being cloud-based, they would probably build a browser version before building a Linux desktop app. If they don't and you need to run a Windows desktop app on Linux, you can probably do this using Bottles (which uses Wine and Proton under the hood, the tech that enables the Steam Deck).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean yeah, but specifically I'd like something built for Linux that's good for just basic spreadsheet stuff. I'm an electrician so I mostly just need to track jobs and accounts.

[–] realbadat 4 points 5 months ago

Take a look at Apache OFBiz, Akounting, Frappe Books, and LedgerSMB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Most of (what we call) Linux OSes are formally GNU/Linux. GnuCash is as close as it gets to "made for Linux". If you don't want an accounting-specific application, but just generic spreadsheets, check out LibreOffice.

I highly recommend GnuCash for accounting though: a fellow board member cleaned up an org's accounting by putting it all in GnuCash, where it was a bunch of error-prone Excel sheets before. That really made it easier to keep track and to do it right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

GnuCash

Huh, they've even got active development on an Android app. https://github.com/GnuCash-Pocket/gnucash-android?tab=readme-ov-file

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I installed the android app just for fun.(I don't do accounting lol)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'm an accountant.

The best accounting software will be the one your accountant uses.

When clients are on the same platform that I use internally everything just matches up and it's beautiful and elegant and amazing.

When clients are using something else it just doesn't fit our workflows and it's just more of a fuck around, which of course the client gets charged for.