Use a non-work PC for non-work stuff?

I do use a Linux PC for all personal stuff. I still want to make my work life a bit more private since MS seems to have made a business of knowing everything they can about workers.

One of the quickest ways to get fired is to try and circumvent your work computer stuff, better to find another job where they dont lock you down so hard.

That depends on what you are doing and your position. IT must expect senior hackers will try to find ways to improve their setup. I wish more companies would recognize that it is not wise to have their workers surveilled by external companies and instead setup these machines with tight privacy by default.

Better to give you less privileges than too many. And if you really need the freedom to things that you can’t. You could always use VMs, if needed.

If you can install and use virtual machines you can use hypervisor escapes - any company that lets you do that probably isn't in the list of super locked down envs (or if it is its probably for a great reason.)

I'm curious, does the company-issue PC also prevent you from opening CMD and PowerShell? (If not, you can probably paste the commands directly there; or create a .bat file yourself as suggested in a sibling comment. But as another comment points out, trying to circumvent company restrictions is risky. Ideally you'd just have to ask IT to do it for you, until they get tired of fulfilling your requests and give you access to your machine.)

Creating the .bat file yourself and pasting the generated code manually should allow you to run the file as admin.

privacy/security best-practices is to block the running of .bat files