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So, how’s it going?
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”?
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Thanks, I edited the Label in GParted.
I had previously set the Name in GParted, I guess that’s different?
A label is a property of the filesystem, on a particular partition. A name is a property in the GPT, so it resides outside of the filesystem/partition.
In the old days, when we were using MBR disks, we only had labels. The problem with labels is that they can be a bit inconsistent, with some filesystems only offering 11 character labels, some 15, some supporting only upper case (FAT) etc. With GPT disks, the name can be stored in the GPT itself, and has a char limit of 72, which gives more flexibility and consistency, regardless of the actual filesystem in use. But labels are still around for backwards compatibility reasons.
Thanks for the background! It seema labels are still very much in use if that’s the way I need to rename a partition so it shows with that label in the UI.
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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.
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?
Parallels did that - possibly VMWare as well im not sure.
Ah maybe it was Parallels. I didn’t use them myself, just knew of others that did.
Yes, absolutely - wine itself has a layer to allow that. Have used it before and it works well (albeit with a bit of tweaking).
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?
You can! Just use WinApps, it provides seamless windows + file type association, so it works similar to Parallels on Mac - you just double click an .xlsx in Linux, it fires up an Excel window on your Linux desktop.
Another option that works similarly, is Cassowary, but it hasn’t been updated since Dec last year.
In either case, I’d highly recommend using a minimal, debloated version of Windows, such as Tiny10, so that it launches faster and doesn’t consume much resources.
Amazing, thanks! I’ll give this a go when I get a chance 😀