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  • distrobox

    Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

  • I recommend looking into distrobox. This is a shell wrapper around podman/docker that can be used to quickly setup a large range of distros on linux. It makes containers and integrates nicely with your home folder. I've been using it for having an arch distro with steam on fedora.

  • toolbox

    Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux (by containers)

  • There's not much hacking to it... Containers offer mostly similar functionality. Podman's a better choice than Docker on Linux systems. Toolbx, built on podman, is probably the thing you're looking for, though.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • lima

    Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

  • limactl (Linux version obviously)

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