I am mainly writing this for future me in case I need it again. I needed to print some labels with my Dymo LabelWriter 450 and haven't done this since switching to Linux. Even on Windows it wasn't that easy so I expected some hassle on linux.
But it was a breeze :
First the driver installation, it appears that there is a package for that
sudo apt install printer-driver-dymo
Then connecting the printer and if you have lost the manual Dymo has some articles on that.
And the printer is already recognized by the system :

So the last part was to edit the labels and print them. I could have use LibreOffice Writer which is already installed but prefered to check for a specialized software and thnks to Garth Vander Houwen I discovered gLabels.
It already have a template for some Dymo labels, I just needed to determine which was the one loaded in my printer. After some time of measuring a label and comparing to the properties of many templates I realized that the reference indicated by the part # of the product info was the reference indicated on the box of the labels :

Just needed to edit my labels:



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