I hate when any company I’m buying something from does this.

Debian and docker compose

How do you fire someone that is unpaid? That’s called volunteering.

Specific to your proxy issue, I’d highly recommend nginx proxy manager, it’s a gui for nginx and helped me with a lot of issues getting other proxies to work initially. I still use it a couple years in simply for the ease of use

It’s kind of mandatory for windows unless you want to get viruses/malware.