[BLKNSLVR]

> Even Meta

I thought Meta had been leading this charge for a decade if not longer.

Need a separate burner-style device for Internet browsing these days (these days meaning the last 15-odd years).

What software systems allow for 'freezing' a system in a particular state, and then upon each reboot returning to that 'clean but configured how I want' state?

I used to use some software called Reboot Restore (or something like that), but that was way long ago and may only work for Windows.

[puppykito]

Sounds a lot like a immutable filesystem à la Fedora Silverblue. I don't run it myself but I have a friend who does that saves her a lot of the headaches I've encountered while messing with Arch. Of course it's Linux so if that's a deal breaker then don't.

Also there's plenty of software that avoids changes in disk drive after reboot (for library computers and such). Don't know any example sadly.

[tacomagick]

We used DeepFreeze in our smartboards, It would lock onto a disk state and until unlocked would revert the system back to the locked state after every shutdown/reboot.