docker-texlive-thin VS docker-webtop

I recently wrote a few documents in latex after ignoring it for over a decade. Trying to get a working setup with latex + bibtex + a few custom styles was quite annoying. I can appreciate that people who just want to author a document with some equations in latex but who are not programmers or avid command line users might find the entire experience of getting a tolerable latex workflow set up very challenging. I guess that might be partly why https://www.overleaf.com/ has a business model! Hide all the package management and command line tooling nonsense behind a simple web interface.

I was very excited to find Thomas Weise had wrangled latex and a Tex Live installation into a docker container: https://github.com/thomasWeise/docker-texlive-thin

Another useful tool is latexmk, which is already installed inside the docker-texlive-thin container : https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html

By containing the madness of latex tooling and package management with docker and some volume mounts, I could have a reasonably sane build process to manufacture PDFs from latex source files.

I don't recommend md2blog add mandatory dependencies on anything related to latex. Another way to think about it might be offering optional latex support through some plugin mechanism that doesn't know anything about latex. But that path sure won't produce anything resembling a "zero config" static site generator.

Or, install https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-webtop on the remote server and then use a GUI library manager in that container, if you really need a GUI.

I've also run a Minecraft server on that mini pc and it ran just fine, but if you want to host more games there are other more powerful machines you could use. There are also a whole world of other services you could try. I've been enjoying Webtop lately, for example.

You could spin up something like Kasm Workspaces, Neko or Docker Webtop.

Install docker and docker-compose. You can search docker-compose HERE and then docker-compose pull and docker-compose up -d

After i had a look at Kasm Workspaces and found it a bit too heavy for my use-case, i was trying to setup a simple linuxserver/webtop container.

Someone on Discord recommended I spin up a Webtop Docker container but they weren't too sure if this would let me login with multiple users. These containers, to my understanding, run their own versions of Guacamole, so managing each of these instances could get complicated over time.

you could just use webtop (https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-webtop)