How does a Lab work?

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It’s been unclear with what I’ve seen so I want to ask the people who potentially used one or few labs.

I saw on the labs page that they mention softwares/apps that you can actually download on your own, so what’s the difference between a Lab ISO and a ‘normal Fedora’ in which I’ve installed the apps myself ?

If there is one or few that interest me, is there a way to implement different labs on the same computer/session ? Is there something like a batch install command to get all that’s inside a Lab at one shot ?

I may be interested in 3 different labs if not 4 so I wanted to understand what it meant exactly. Sorry if it’s redundant but I don’t feel like the question has been asked on those terms, I tried to read previous questions/threads about that but it didn’t answer my interrogations.

Thanks in advance for helping me sort it out. I’m very new to Linux and Fedora so I’m discovering literally everything, minus some software I already knew like Audacity, Mixxx, Siril and Gimp. The Labs are interesting because they give extra tools to have a 360° experience, I’m very curious.

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As I understand it a Lab is a curated set of apps.

You can install all the apps for a Lab using dnf.
Each Lab seems to have a “group” of packages.

You can list all the groups using sudo dnf group list.
Then given the name of a group you are interested in your install it using sudo dnf group install <group>.
If you want to know what will be install you can use sudo dnf group info <group>.

For example I installed all the Jam Lab’s audio apps using sudo dnf group install audio.

With the change from dnf4 to dnf5 the names of groups has changed.
You may find documentation using the old name if it’s not been updated yet.

You can install as many Labs as you want.

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Thank you for clarifying, I’m excited!