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I've worked from home for many years and currently have 2 main computers--my desktop and my laptop. I've tried to keep any kind of spyware off of my laptop, but my company uses a number of Google and other products that most likely have spyware in some form or other and so I must have them on my desktop in order to do my work.
Now my company is wanting to put me on the road to visit clients and I will need a computer with me. I don't want to take 2 computers so I'm working on a way to isolate professionally necessary but personally unwanted programs. It looks like something like virtualbox (if it can be trusted) would work. I boot as I normally do and run all the suspicious software in separate environments. So, my questions are:
1. Is that overkill? Would a simple sandbox chroot accomplish the same thing? Even if so, I can see some other advantages to something like virtualbox, such as testing things on other Linux distributions or obtrusive things I'd kind of like to use like Steam, so I'm leaning that way.
2. Everything I've found about how to use virtualbox assumes you have systemd. Can anyone point me to instructions on getting it working on Obarun? That's why I'm posting this here instead of some other forum.
3. Any other advice from those who value privacy?
Now my company is wanting to put me on the road to visit clients and I will need a computer with me. I don't want to take 2 computers so I'm working on a way to isolate professionally necessary but personally unwanted programs. It looks like something like virtualbox (if it can be trusted) would work. I boot as I normally do and run all the suspicious software in separate environments. So, my questions are:
1. Is that overkill? Would a simple sandbox chroot accomplish the same thing? Even if so, I can see some other advantages to something like virtualbox, such as testing things on other Linux distributions or obtrusive things I'd kind of like to use like Steam, so I'm leaning that way.
2. Everything I've found about how to use virtualbox assumes you have systemd. Can anyone point me to instructions on getting it working on Obarun? That's why I'm posting this here instead of some other forum.
3. Any other advice from those who value privacy?