![]() (Personally, I would've called it "Budget or Die By Swallowing 1,478 Rusty Nails," but that's just me.) Which brings us to the New New Stuff, which Jesse (being a big math guy) dubbed YNAB 3. and lots of new YNAB users came along for the ride.And Now There's YNAB 3 At that point, good old "YNAB" became "YNAB Pro." Having Excel was no longer a requirement to run the YNAB system, which meant it was available to a much-larger audience. It was either 2007 or 2008 when Jesse decided to move away from a spreadsheet-based YNAB, and evolve it into a standalone piece of software. He was right all along: The YNAB system, with its built-in insistence on "living on what you make," was a gem. Initially, Jesse had to coerce me a bit to get me to try out and review You Need a Budget in its original version. At its core, it revolved around Jesse's Four Simple Rules of Cash Flow Management: That first incarnation was appealingly clean and straightforward. Actually, it was more like a "system" of spreadsheets. Jesse Mecham (young husband, father, and a guy whose understanding of money and human behavior is off the charts) first created You Need a Budget as an Excel spreadsheet. (Budgeting, anyone?) YNAB: Where It Comes From plus a few on which, amazingly, Quicken absolutely missed the boat. YNAB 3 (aka "You Need a Budget") was created to fill that need. (You know - unlimited account tracking, unlimited categories. One that's professionally created, thoroughly supported, and which offers just as much real-life "financial expandability" as does Quicken. What those folks need is a good, stable alternative to Quicken. But where I - after all these many years of Quicken use and dependence - can overlook and/or dodge the majority of Quicken's shortcomings, and then write smiling reviews of Quicken 2010 Deluxe. On those points, you'll get not much argument from me. And I, as a guy who knows firsthand the immeasurable value of having control of one's money, am front-row and sympathetic to the cause.Īt the heart of former Quicken-ites' complaints? Most all of the and emails I've received have been valid. But I completely understand the mass uprising against Intuit's stranglehold on personal-finance software. Yes, I myself remain a devoted Quicken user. well, then you have the makings of something special.īut YNAB 3 inquirers, humor me for a moment, please.īefore I discuss YNAB, I first need to talk about Quicken. But then, when you throw on top of that the fact that Lifehacker readers rated it as their favorite as well. The fact that readers selected it (overwhelmingly) as 2011's "Best Personal Finance Software for Windows" tells you about all you need to know. YNAB3 is an astounding piece of software. If you can't get your hands on a Windows machine to get the key, let me know (ian AT ) and I'll see what I can do (it may take some time though).First off, I'm not going to tell you anything particularly new: ![]() I'm not sure why the "get CD key" button is even there, I'm not seeing it on my PC at all. It wasn't an easy decision, but it was one we had to make. So we decided to drop official support for it. Then when Adobe (who make the platform we develop on) stopped supporting Linux, it made it even harder for us to justify. We actually used to support Linux, but the tiny number of users we had made it really hard to support. I've read about this app before on several sites, but always shrugged it off because you lack Linux support.Ī friend of mine gifted this app to me though, which is why I'm trying really hard to get it to work. The reason you guys don't have Linux users is because you don't support Linux. If that button worked, I wouldn't need to grab a Windows machine to get my CD Key. I noticed that Steam has a "get CD Key" button but it only displays the "Requesting CD Key" indefinitely. Originally posted by Nushio:Hi! I'm also trying to get this to work on Linux.
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