[RndTbl] run windows tax software in Linux!

[Greg Manning]

Great info for next year...  I understand that win10 will be a pay as you
go monthly or yearly platform by then....
and only the wifes  box is win10

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 8:23 AM Bradford Vokey <brad at fsi.ca> wrote:

> Unfortunately, StudioTax is no longer free.
>
> https://www.studiotax.com/paymentpage.html
>
> But $15 is still very reasonable.
>
> --
> Bradford C. Vokey
>
> Treasurer
> Manitoba UNIX User Group
>
> On 2021-04-25 4:23 a.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
> > Maybe not in time for many people (assuming on-time filing), but perhaps
> > useful for the future:
> >
> > After much messing around, I got StudioTax personal tax software to run
> on
> > Linux using Wine!  Better, yet, I also got it running in Wine in firejail
> > to keep the Windows software jailed up unable to misbehave.
> >
> > StudioTax is 100% free (as in beer, but not as in FLOSS) Canadian
> personal
> > (and sm.bus sole prop. non-T2 business) tax software (donation-ware).
> Brad
> > & I have been using them for years, ever since CoolTax stopped.  If
> you're
> > half decent at accounting and taxes, forget for-pay QuickTax/TurboTax!
> >
> > It's a bit trickier than most other Windows software on Wine because it
> > requires .NET 4.5 and .NET needs quite a few tricks to work in Wine and
> > firejail (ugh).
> >
> > I'm having lots of fun with wine/dosbox (and firejail!) lately and I've
> > *nearly* gotten to the point where I do not require a Windbloze box
> > anymore.  Just an ancient Quickbooks (should be easy) and EAC (maybe not
> > so much) to go and I may just turn my Windbloze box off for good!
> >
> > -- Trevor - taking MUUGers' I-use-Windows-as-my-desktop excuses away, 1
> > exe at a time
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