It stops malware etc. From persisting because it catches writes. Basically it kind of mounts an overlayfs over your drive.
You can configure this differently, and iirc the paid donation version has an option to make your user directory private.
I agree that this probably isn't the best default, but that likeöy was a case of not rtfm'ing, andlnot misjudging the risk level. I was confused by this at first too.
Full HyperV VMs are significantly slower to boot and run.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
The WinGet github repository has some scripts to setup and install programs inside.
I mainly use it to test silent install flags when I'm deploying apps or running untrusted things :)
Windows containers gaining RDP is probably the bigger wishlist item, for me. Windows containers with a GUI would make some things extremely trivial and other things much easier.
[1]: https://withinrafael.com/2018/03/09/using-remote-desktop-ser...
How have you been? Are you still in the Bellevue/Redmond area?
A lot of people were using sandboxie for less than noble purposes, like multi boxing in matchmaking games in low population regions, so they’d end up matching all their clients w/ each other.
Don't use browser password saving. I presume a third party app like bitwarden would have been better. though if the browser auto syncs and installs the extension your risk is a little higher.