alt Hacker NewsPeople seem to come up with all manner of complicated setups with virtual machines or docker or whatever.
All you need is a separate limited user account on your computer. Multi-user Unix-y systems were designed for this kind of thing for decades.
My entire development environment is literally just "sudo".
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secondcoming • today at 1:21 PM
The advantage of VMs is that you can nuke them and be done with it if you need to.
I use my personal laptop for $WORK and everything work related is done via the VM.
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your kernel is not isolate and if you accidentally run the wrong command in sudo you will nuke your computer lol
or just have a linux vps and ssh in for $5 a month