Bitlocker and Linux - Visio

[Michael Butash]

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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