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A client of mine does the payroll for his small business and has thus far used various versions of Intuit's Quickbooks. While he can manage to muddle around with programs and do things, computers are still very much magic boxes to him and he had the malware to prove it. I'm doing everything remotely, so I would like to switch him to a simple Linux desktop but the problem is Quickbooks doesn't have a Linux client and the web version of their app is unusable. I've looked into Linux financial software (e.g. gnucash) but I can't seem to find anything that does payroll and accounts for U.S. state and federal payroll taxes. Does anyone use payroll software for Linux that they can recommend?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by NoMaster on Wednesday July 08 2015, @07:49AM
On the one hand, you have your client - barely computer literate, but who pays you for that. They know Quickbooks, and likely relies almost totally on it for the financial success of their business.
On the other hand, you have you - who just wants to make your job easier.
See the problem? He's paying you to make his life easier, not yours. Do your damned job (which may involve setting up a machine with extremely limited connectivity, and telling him to only use that for Quickbooks), and let him do his.
After all, it's him doing his job which makes it possible for him to pay you...
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...