GnuCash

I've been using GnuCash on Fedora, Ubuntu and the portable version on Windows 7 and Xp and i've nothing bad to say. Importing from banks work great once you learn how to use it better. Works with Banco do Brasil OFX export feature.

Eu uso o GnuCash no Fedora, Ubuntu e uso a versão portátil no Windows 7 e XP e não tenho o que reclamar. Importar de Bancos funciona muito bem uma vez que você aprende como se faz. Dá para usar os arquivos OFX exportados no banco do Brasil.

If you're looking for something simple and easy to use to balance your bank account, this is NOT it. Messy and over-complex for home use.

Easy to use and detailed - one of the best apps I've used cross platform (cross platform is important to me - I use linux and Windows and prefer to have inter operability).

Fine if you don't use the software to download data from banks (I manually enter data - slower but more reliable and lets me assign spending to categories I want) - Portable GNUCash is a nice touch as well.

Interface is pretty clunky, especially on Windows. Lots of tedious clicking and mousing required. Claims that it's going to detect duplicates, but then doesn't.

All Austrian banks use OFX-protocol for account-synchronisation: where is an instruction for OFX with GnuCash?
Some Austrian banks did the account-synchronisation with Microsoft Money with OFX-protocol until now. With coming up of the SEPA standard in the near future it will not be possible to give up a transaction in MS-Money any more. Then you can use MS-Money only for synced reports of account-transactions given up in the web-interface of the easybank-accounts. Theoretically GnuCash also should work with the OFX-protocol.
I did a test-installation of GnuCash and tried to sync my easybank-account with GnuCash and OFX, but it did not work.
The easybank recommends ProSaldo Money 2011 from Haude (1) instead of MSMoney, but this app is by far not as good as MS Money or GnuCash and it is not for free as GnuCash is, although GnuCash offers much more useful features than PS-Money. In the Haude forum (3) you can get more detailed information about the many problems and disadvantages at present. In an excellent uservoice feedback platform (2) you can vote for suggested improvements.
So, if anybody is successful with syncing an easybank-account or another account with the OFX-protocol with GnuCash, please inform about a link with a detailed instruction.
(1) http://www.haude.at/ProSaldo_Money_2011.id.1658.htm?newsID=1666
(2) http://prosaldomoney.uservoice.com/forums/88783-general/topics/89385-ich-schlage-vor-dass-/filter/top
(3) http://bit.ly/gWynlZ

I installed it on my laptop with Windows XP Professional SP2, and it worked fine.

Then I installed it on my desktop PC, also with Windows XP Professional SP2. And it would never load, and would consume 50% of the CPU.

This is a known problems with it running in Windows, and removing / re-installing didn't solve it.

SOLUTION: copy program folder and configurations folder from Laptop to Desktop: now it runs fine on the desktop as well.

The problem now is that Gnu Cash, despite being very complete and a powerful software, uses > 200Mb HD space. it may be a complex program for a simple home user.