That’s a very interesting discussion that could be explored a bit more here.
I have actually been debating this with myself ever since I started getting interested in privacy, and I came to the conclusion that I wanted :
- A minimum number of devices on which to work on ;
- A maximum number of dedicated storages/sessions for each relevant usecase scenario.
I have already started doing this on my computer where I have a C drive for the system, a D drive for my personal work, and an E drive for all games, movies, and more “for fun” content.
Still, you can’t always have portable softwares so you are bound to have some interaction between the drives which doesn’t make for a properly isolated environnement.
I got interested in containers or things like NixOS, but never actually tried as I felt it was too complex for a need that I felt should just exist in the first place on the market.
Just imagine : you have a single host device, and you can just hotswap a work drive or a gaming drive like some very high performance USB and it just works out of the box without having to worry about your OS messing with things, having different partitions, etc. and since it’d be hardware isolated, you couldn’t possibly leak data from your gaming drive to your work drive and vice-versa.