I run visio in crossover linux without issues.
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Michael Butash <
mike@butash.net> wrote:
> I hadn't, but just did... Doesn't look too bad, but I really need
> bi-directional import and export of visio formats. That and I never really
> use them for actual flow charts as most software seems to presume I want to
> do.
>
> I end up doing some very detailed network diagrams for customers and
> employers, where I've found nothing really comes close. All the network
> vendors at very least dump out visio objects of their devices to work with,
> and anything else is variable. Some do omnigraffle, which is great if you
> (over)paid for a mac. I even do stuff like construction architectural
> layouts in visio when working on my house. I built a full-scale
> representation of my house I use to model my reconstruction efforts in.
> Nothing else seems to offer the same flexibility as visio.
>
> I did/do occasionally use lucidchart, it's about the most compatible I've
> found, but still does stupid things like not import layers properly, of
> which I've had a bug/feature request (feature: make it actually work right)
> for 2 years now. I use a lot of layers in my visios...
>
> Even libreoffice draw somewhat works with visios, but they're always
> horribly broken rendering things for me when I try. I've never really
> considered even trying to create one in it, but in a pinch I can at least
> somewhat look at them without firing up my windoze vm.
>
> For pure networking, yEd was pretty cool, and someone went through and at
> least converted most of the popular cisco stencils for it when last tried
> in 2014 or so. Some of the cisco guys I knew were working with it
> internally, so we tried using it at one of my last fte gigs years ago. It
> was basic, good enough, but in no means as detailed as visio. We all just
> sorta went back to using visio eventually.
>
> If only microsoft hadn't acquired them, it seems to be only going down
> hill since visio 2007, much as microsoft has.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 10/18/2016 10:48 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/2016 10:08 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still down to only visio I simply haven't found a suitable
>>> replacement for yet.
>>>
>>
>> Have you looked at Calligra Flow? I believe it even loads (but not
>> saves) Visio files these days. I'm sure it's not as feature rich as Visio,
>> but it might do enough to satisfy your needs.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
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