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  • sumsinj@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I personally used latex with the tikz library… It was strange but all the other things annoyed me

  • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    I was looking for one of these yesterday and honestly they’re all pretty clunky web browser applets. If I’m replacing a Microsoft Office program I want a fully featured desktop app, not a .io website, yknow?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I detest the differences in their desktop and online versions. Office is such a cumbersome mess.

      Visio online is useless, just a viewer.

      • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        57 minutes ago

        Well yeah. If i wanted to use a browser applet, I don’t see why I’d use MS at all. But for this specific use case (diagramming and flowcharting), Visio (imo) is pretty far ahead of LibreOffice Draw and that’s the only serious offline non-MS option for this.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
    361·
    1 day ago

    Draw.io is pretty good. It has a desktop version you can download as Flatpak. I even use it at work and got the IT dept. to install it by default. They’re saving hundreds a month due to this.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      1 day ago

      Wait, has that become open source again in recent releases? I remember it not being for a while, but the repo currently says Apache 2.0? Anyone know more about it?

      • sepiroth154@feddit.nl
        11·
        1 day ago

        I think this quote says enough:

        The icon sets and stencil libraries included in this software, and any derivatives thereof (including conversions to other formats, traced reproductions, substantially similar visual representations, or AI-generated images created using these icons as reference or training input), may not be used as software assets in, distributed for use with, or incorporated into Atlassian products or products distributed through the Atlassian marketplace or plugin ecosystem, without explicit written permission.

  • DeathByDenim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 day ago

    LibreOffice Draw worked well enough for me. It can even open Visio documents. It doesn’t save to Visio though, so I had to give up on it eventually as the company mandated Visio documents, even though they just end up being inserted into other documents as PNG.

    But the drawing part was solid for me.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
    151·
    1 day ago

    Draw.io my feeling is you you need anything more fancy, you have missed the point of flowcharts and things like it. I have used the basic tools in libre office and word, it just depends on what you need to do.