mac to pc nightmare | just don't
i came on here to rant... I've been working my way out of the apple ecosphere for about 6 months. keeping macs for music/video/art production but that's it. trying to get all of my shit onto windows. long and short is totally sick of apples drive to obsolescence, insane prices and lack of input and control. just over it. won't go further because that would be a few pages in itself...
The difference between mac and windows QC is the difference between an exploding star and a giraffe. these are quite literally two different programs. I pay for deluxe for extra budgeting control as well as cloud sync. so $75 a year. Not bad for mac, IMO, but $75 too much for windows.
literally every simple ass thing i try to do on it isn't possible. what just now sent me over the edge was finding out that Ctrl+A, doesn't select all transactions in an account. it opens some stupid account window. after a month of trying to make this work I just found out you can't actually "select all" - something I use all the fn time... no- to select all you have to grab one if you can without it going into edit mode, hold shift and scroll through what might be 10 years of transactions
like probably everyone on here i now have to work 18 hours a day just to survive and this is what i've been using my free time on so kinda losing it and regretting every time I recommended this product. way behind in keeping the books up which begins makes me wiggy.
i am honestly floored at how much you can't do in windows. you know how you like to drag a column like 'tags', or 'memos' and put it where you like? Nope
it's more than just simple shit... did you know there's no night mode and the basic layout looks like it's from 1997? yup
with my cash accounts I'd occasionally drag transactions back and forth... nope. try to grab one without opening the fields for editing. it's nearly impossible.
i knew transferring from mac to windows would likely cause problems but omg... firstly you have one export option to keep everything in tact. "but it lets you select only the accounts you want to transfer right" Nope. why would it do that??? ....idiot
on top of this some accounts were missing slews data, so i tried the in/export again. does it ask you is you really wanna duplicate all these account? No, of course not... why would it? windows computers are only a fucking blizzard of non-stop notifications. it would tell you when it had to take a shit if it needed to do that. but the missing data was there when you tried again right? Nope. it remained perfectly imperfect again.
now onto deleting accounts... that's fun and only take like 10 clicks with a huge waiting period, while it re-updates the cloud for the 90th time in 15 minutes. probably too much to ask you if you really want to wait for this again... yeah it is busy, basically choking on a barrage of unrelated notifications that don't matter at all
you know those handy blue dots and how they are supposedly for alerting you to review new transactions on mac? well, when you download new transactions they are there until you file them where you need and shut hte dot off. there's not even a filter for that... there's a dropdown of a dozen things you can show and hide. but not that, not "status" which is what the blue dots are now.... so time to get used to the R and C's i guess... even though the C, for cleared, is already a line item in all new transactions... it is automatically labeled as cleared... WTF is going on?!?! so now I have to go through 18 million transactions that are impossible to select individually or in bulk and somehow charge it to an R as my finger on the shift button quakes and sweat stings my eyes for fear of 2 hours of transaction selections could be for nothing. which is what i will pay for QC next time.
you know what. im not even going to get into the rest of it. there's so many upside down issues i can't wrap my head around. every god dammed thing i solved brought forth 5 more issues that I still need to figure out... and *I HAVEN'T EVEN USED IT YET* / in a month of daily snippets of whack-a-mole problem solving i haven't come close to using qc for what I supposedly paid for.
even chatpgt is like "ugh... dude i don't know any more stuff... just fuck off"
unless there's an overhaul, where it runs nice and smooth like the mac version and less like an elementary school computer from the 80's i am so done with this POS software. which is why i ACTUALLY came here: to read other peoples ideas for a better program for PC. as bad as this is i can't go back to apple. even with gates being a PDF i still have to make this switch.