In the past I have used the xmonad tiling window manager but eventually returned to KDE, because I had some problems with truncated text in terminal windows, needed to be able to run a complicated GUI that was not very suited for a tiling window manager and I thought there was not that much difference in performance.
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Create a Docker image with Debian Linux in which you can install and use Haskell tooling (e.g. Stack) and that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful because using Stack under NixOS can be somewhat cumbersome.
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Create an Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation platform Docker image that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful when your operating system is not supported by Trader Workstation or no recent version is available.

The docker image is based on alekna/docker-ib-tws Docker image (by Laurynas Alekna), but …

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A nix-shell can be used to quickly set up ad-hoc development environments with all required dependencies in place.
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The Purely Functional Linux Distribution – NixOS (by Dolstra, Eelco).

NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.

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Create a Docker4Drupal image with support for Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). Drupal4Docker has Portainer support.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

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Create a Drupal Docker image with support for Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

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Create a Wordpress Docker image with Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

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Create an October CMS Docker image with support for Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

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Where stable actually means stable! – Debian (by Software in the Public Interest).

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.

Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 51000 packages, precompiled …

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