I feel like Linux has the building blocks, it's the configuration necessary to take full advantage of them that is overwhelming. When I used to use Windows the

I feel like Linux has the building blocks, it's the configuration necessary to take full advantage of them that is overwhelming. When I used to use Windows there was also sandboxie which whilst probably wasn't perfectly secure was a good first point of call if you wanted to take a bit more care without firing up a whole VM - was especially interesting to see where apps would dump files as part of their installation process since they were operating in a clean directory tree