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Managing your money for free

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So... today I took some time to finally decide (at least for the timebeing) between the two major - for me - options for personal financial management: Quicken (paid) and GNUCash (free).
GNUCash I have installed and in use for a while and regarding functionality is just great. The problem is just... it is not that good looking. So I gave Quicken a shot. Downloaded a 'trial' version from my favorite usenet repository and I was ready for the tests.
Quicken is nice looking and can generate nice reports - which I like a lot. It has options to plan budgets and other nice little things and can become handy. In fact I was almost opting for Quicken until I realized one little thing missing: it cannot handle transactions with different currencies in the same account; and GNUCash does that like a charm :D. Kudows for the community work.
That's it. Free Software 1 x 0 Paid Software :P. And I'm a proud user and supporter of Free Software.

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