Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 30/8/2023 (self.newzealand)

submitted 3 years ago by Dave to c/newzealand

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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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[-] Dave 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yesterday I did a fresh install of Nobara Linux. I originally used Fedora (which was the only officially supported Linux distro for the Framework laptop at the time), then switched to Ubuntu under some misguided believe that it would be more stable and easier to handle software for and get support (whenever you google Linux stuff, the answers are always for Ubuntu). In the end I didn't like it, and so after spending most of this year to date on Ubuntu I've decided I gave it a decent go, and it was time for a change.

Nobara is based on Fedora, and I know a lot more now than I did when I first used Fedora. I've opted for their Gnome variant rather than their "Official" DE, as I prefer the dock to the taskbar. There are a bunch of Gnome extensions installed by default so I've been playing with those and have got a setup I quite like.

If anyone's an expert, here's a super basic question that I can't seem to find the answer to. I created a partition to hold all my stuff so next time I don't have to clear everything again. How can I make it show with a different name, instead of "559GB Volume"?

[-] Axisential 2 points 3 years ago

Nice one - haven't played with Nobara before, looks interesting. I've had several different versions running a media centre, and a separate headless server back in the day. Ran our main family laptop on Manjaro Gnome for a long time as well - back to windows these days however as my wife needs Archicad (Windows only). Son is using Manjaro as his daily driver for school and loving it. Everything's web based for him, so nice and easy.

[-] Dave 1 points 3 years ago

Macs (used to?) have a program (I think it might have been in the VMware suite) that let you run a windows VM behind the scenes, and display the applications as if they were applications in MacOS.

Are there applications for Linux that let you do something similar?

[-] Axisential 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, absolutely - wine itself has a layer to allow that. Have used it before and it works well (albeit with a bit of tweaking).

[-] Dave 1 points 3 years ago

I have searched around a little in the past and haven't managed to find a way to run MS Office on Linux (In particular, Excel. I don't care what anyone says, Calc is just not the same). I'd think if you can do a Windows VM set up like this, then you'd be able to do Excel. Can you point me to something that might help?