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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 30/8/2023 (self.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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[-] 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?

[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 3 years ago

Parallels did that - possibly VMWare as well im not sure.

[-] Dave 1 points 3 years ago

Ah maybe it was Parallels. I didn't use them myself, just knew of others that did.

[-] 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?

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