I’d like to never boot into Windows again. I have VirtualBox installed where I can install Windows 11 if I need to but is there anything that it(Windows on a VM) wouldn’t be able to do like accessing hardware devices? Thanks in advance

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      15 hours ago

      If you can’t run your business out of Excel, you aren’t using Excel correctly.
      /S

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        15 hours ago

        I mean I’m sure it’s possible but surely there are better solutions…?

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          Not for the price of €12/user/month

          Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP can never match those prices.

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            I wasn’t referring to those, I was referring to dedicated accounting software.

            €12/user is trivial for any business, much less an accounting business that I’m sure it’s lucrative.

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              Yes, the price is the point. Excel (Office) is that dirt fucking cheap, industry standard, and comes with a bunch of other shit included that can be legitimate value add for a small business.

              If you’re at a firm that has legitimate need for specialized accounting software, you’ll have enough money to get those. But even those generally export to Excel format. Without outing myself too much, I’ve had comsiderable exposure to financial tech over the last decade and less than 10 specialized accounting softwares I’ve seen couldn’t export to Excel. All of those still exported to csv, or “software agnostic excel” if we want to bend things a bit.

              The power of being industry standard for going on 30 years now cannot be overstated.