Yes, I’ve looked into GnuCash and KMyMoney. I believe I’d be fine with either of those. Problem is, I have 17 years of Quicken data, and the conversion process would be very, very tedious (have to .qif and import every account, even old, hidden accounts, individually). Of course, I could just start over from scratch, but then it would take several years before the numbers would become meaningful again.
I’ve gotten the wife’s Zen player to work with Amarok no problem. And I know pretty much any MP3 player that’s recognized as a MSD would work easily as well. But I use an old IPOD Shuffle (Gen I - 500MB lol) that just won’t work with Linux. Yeah, I know, a new MP3 player can be had for under $50, but what can I say? I’m a cheap ba$tard.
One solution for your quicken issues might be to run it in a virtual machine. There are several out there, though I’m partial to VmWare. (VmWare player is free).