cakeofhonor

Are you doing this via rifle? That was how I was doing it in ranger, but with lf you can make custom shell commands directly in the config and assign custom hotkeys to it.

I second this. lf is basically ranger but you can integrate any shell commands or tools into it. It’ll require a bit of setting up though as the defaults are bare bones.

One thing you can check out is quadlet, which is podman containers running as systemd services. You just basically put the .container files in the right directory and sytemd will pick them up and run them for you. I have syncthing and zerotier running like this.

I don’t really think you need to layer anything unless you’re doing virtualization, but I haven’t really looked into that yet.