It’s clear to me now that I need to set up my home machine the way I set up BYOD when I was contracting last. I need a separate account for all of my development.

I have a friend who at one point had five monitors and 2 computers (actually it might be 3) on his desk and maybe he’s the one doing it right. He keeps his personal stuff and his programming/work stuff completely separate.

I have three OS installs. Windows install for games. Another Windows for development (I have to for windows dev). And a Ubuntu install for anything not games/work. The windows drives use bitlocker and they can't access each other's files. It's not perfect.

Although with the amount of crap I have to install for windows development I'm starting to wonder if a base VM image that is used as a start point for each project would be cleaner.