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?
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:55AM
Yeah, I know it once was too, but not sure if that's still the case, especially with the quickbooks online offering. But even if it is still completely incompatible and it is a big one time conversion... switching to mac may still make sense... for some people; if they jsut can't keep their PC clean. Mac's aren't immune... but a lot of crud still isn't targeting them.