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Personal Finances
Re: personal finance applications: For years, I have always used Gnucash for all my banking needs. It allows you to go to your banking and “download to Quicken” which will download bank debits/credits to your Gnucash account. Setup is not difficult.
You can print reports for assets and liabilities, budget, business reports, income expenses and more.
Tom
Ronnie says: Tom has kindly written up a quick intro to Gnucash that will be featured in a future issue of FCM. Stay tuned!
Distro Hopping
I have been using Linux for many years, starting with Mandrake over 15 years ago. Now I use Linux Mint Cinnamon as my main distro, but have been trying to find a KDE-based distro which would give me the same stability. I have used Arch-based distros like Manjaro and KaOS, Debian-based distros, and RPM-based distros, but they all let me down at some time or other. Almost in desperation, I am now using Kubuntu 15.10, which seems pretty stable and gives me all the apps that I require, plus enough customisation to get my screen looking the way I want it.
It seems that Ubuntu-based distros are still the best and most reliable Linux distros.
Bernie Victor
Multiboot With UEFI
I read this excellent article by Frank Dennisen in FCM#102, but would like to add one word of warning, based on my own experience.
Frank advises to run fstrim during boot-up by editing /etc/rc.local. I normally schedule fstrim with cron to a time when I know I will not be using the machine.
I tried Frank's suggestion but forgot fstrim was running next time I rebooted. I then tried to suspend and the computer ignored this for a while and then went to a black screen. I hit Enter and the screen repainted and then suspended ok. When I tried to wake-up the machine, I got a terminal with a lot of messages about memory locations being unusable. A reboot fixed the problem.
Frank's suggestion will work ok but I think it is necessary to let fstrim finish before creating any disk activity. Unfortunately there is no indication of when it finishes and it can take some time; six minutes in my case.
Michael