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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by romeoblade on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:52PM (#30393693)
I do the same thing on Linux. I have multiple different users I use for various purposes. One for Work, Personal, Side Business, and an emergency "break glass" user.

I install most applications in my home XDG directory if possible. It helps me have pure separation between work and home life. If I'm on my personal user, I do not have access to work tools, etc.

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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by kyboren on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:49PM (#30399916)
If you're already going to these lengths to compartmentalize, you might as well just run Qubes. It's really not much more mental overhead.

Plus you get nice features like different color window borders for applications running in different profiles, properly permissioned inter-profile RPC, virtualized networking ('personal' gets networking from clearnet 'sys-firewall', 'work' gets networking from 'work-vpn', 'project1' gets networking over Tor from 'sys-whonix', etc.), and much, much more.

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