This has not been my experience, but I'm not a hardware engineer, and haven't tried any of the things you were frustrated with, so we could both be right. I use

This has not been my experience, but I'm not a hardware engineer, and haven't tried any of the things you were frustrated with, so we could both be right. I use a linux laptop at home and a linux desktop in the office. For almost 2 years of mostly remote working during the pandemic, beyondcorp has caused me trouble maybe 4 times, and 2 of those times were when my office re-opened and I had to revive my security keys that hadn't been used in over a year. There is a VPN, but I've never had to use it. They kept my corp desktop running in the office which I could use as a jump host when I needed it. Tunneling X11 over SSH worked well, and the browser-based remote desktop worked ~ok.