Especially given the kinds of threats normal computer users face. That day isn’t today, but it can’t get here fast enough. I think this kind of thing will eventually be requisite basic computer hygene. Unless the only thing I do is play games in that virtual machine, however. Certainly, when I play Escape from Tarkov, there is really no way to be sure it isn’t stealing my login cookies in the background. Any security issue that happens in one doesn’t affect the others. If you aren’t familiar with Qubes, imagine setting up a VM for each kind of thing you might want to do – online banking, playing games, doing work stuff, etc. (Qubes only supports seamless mode with Windows 7, but this technique probably works fine there too, with a new enough version of xFreeRDP). For one, it is possible to get an experience more akin to QubesOS, but without the baggage and commitment to Qubes. Running apps in this way has some advantages. (Parsec may be a better choice for these kinds of tasks, if Looking Glass is not an option.) I don’t recommend it for playing games, but it works reasonably well even for things like Photoshop and Premiere. It is not as fast as Looking Glass, but it can work seamlessly. It uses Remote Desktop, well specifically RemoteApp, that allows running individual apps via the RDP protocol, but without the start menu and the rest of the “windows desktop experience.” This had been broken on both Virtual Box and VMware workstation for years. Yes, that is Microsoft Office running seamlessly (flawlessly) on Fedora 34, at near-native speed, with some measure of video acceleration.
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