Quicken

What works

The software functions almost as well as on Windows. Importing files is fully functional as is backing up and exporting files. Password protected files do function as well as creating new files and accounts. The input of transactions is also fully functional.

What does not

This program occasionally crashes upon startup, but stays open once a data file is loaded. Pop-ups saying that Quicken does not support being run as an administrator.

Workarounds

The workaround for the crashes is to restart Quicken after the crash. The popup can be safely ignored when it appears.

What was not tested

Importing data from online.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Needs Gecko to function. Sometimes Gecko does not install correctly, but the program still functions without it.

From http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=30158

• vcrun6 msls31 and gdiplus all seem unnecessary, and in fact gdi seems to significantly slow down Quicken.   Microsoft fonts, Internet Explorer 6 or higher and .Net 2 or higher seem to be all that's needed with wine 1.6 or higher.
  
• Manual and automatic updates can fail if host system is connected to the internet during original installation and during any automatic or manually downloaded & applied updates.  Try updating manually with host internet disabled.  Quicken automatic software updates should be disabled.
• If running on a 64 bit machine, force 32 bit in wine via environment variable as some versions of wine have issues on 64 bit machines. (eg "WINEARCH=win32 wine ....")
• If installing on a multiple core system, run all operations on a single core only as multiple core operations do not seem to be well managed under wine + Quicken.  (eg, "numactl --physcpubind=+1  wine ...")