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I've been through 3 machines with my current employer. Ubuntu, Windows, and ChromeOS.

While there has not been much "gross software" to maintain locally, I am in the business of testing untrusted code. At first, VM environments were provided to accommodate this. That became increasingly impractical and inaccessible.

In each of the OSes I've used, I've created a separate user account exclusively for work. I used to log into Slack on my personal account, so I could watch it 24/7; that's no longer necessary, and so work and personal are partitioned chiefly by the user account I'm logged into.

The Chromebook is my newest system and provides the best isolation. Untrusted Linux code can be tested in the VM provided, because what else will I do in there?

I currently have two pain points in ChromeOS: no way to test Windows PowerShell, and my password manager's database is read-only, but the latter is a personal choice of software. It's nothing that will get support from my employer or a fix from Google.

I don't know what you consider gross, but I'm sorry that work is like that sometimes.