General discussion • Re: RPi 5 as a desktop daily driver?

Financial tracking (Quicken) - only available for Windows. Linux financial programs don't have nearly sufficient features to do daily automatic transaction tracking, handle stock splits, identify long vs. short term cap gains, etc.

Quicken & QuickBooks messed up badly a few years ago for any not-Windows. I use ‘Money’ on my iMac and it does ok.

Tax prep (Turbo Tax) - only available for Linux if you're willing to give your data away using their cloud/web based offering.

It’s simpler to pay a local accountant and more likely to actually get the best result.

Photography and image manipulation (Photoshop & Lightroom) - No real equivalent for Linux.

I don’t have any use for either but I’m pretty sure someone will be along very soon to defend Gimp.

Programming (Visual Studio) - There is no better integrated editing, compiling and debugging solution for Linux.

Now there I vigorously disagree. There is a *much* better solution, that works on pretty much all platforms. It’s called Smalltalk and it invented the concept. In 1970 or thereabouts. Visual Studio doesn’t hold a birthday candle to it.

As for “daily driver” I use my pi’s for essentially all the work development I do. Email & browsing is done on the iMac because it is all setup there and I’m not interested in fiddling with it. So which one is the “daily driver”?

Statistics: Posted by timrowledge — Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:15 am

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