The article about why Jaxx couldn't add Monero to their wallet, which does support Dash already btw, reminds me of my own difficulties when I tried running a monero node locally. In the end just like Jaxx I had to give up on Monero.
When was that? I'll grant that prior to the Dec 2015 release, the memory requirements for running a Monero node were quite high. Although you could make it run with less, the in-memory blockchain wanted to use as much as 3-4GB of memory and took a few minutes to startup and shutdown as a result.
With that said, since the 0.9 release in Dec 2015 running a Monero node is ridiculously easy. I run nodes on VPSes with 1GB of memory, 1 core and on non-SSDs which use ~ 10GB of disk space. Drop by #monero on IRC if you ever want to try running a node in the future and have problems.