I know you’re sick of hearing about this, but right now is the time to speak out.

CrowdStrike is Operating System level surveillance, that reports back to this single company, the actions of ALL these different devices around the world, even when they are offline.

If your job forces you to use it, you got 3 options:

a) You can use KVM Linux and do your job in a CrowdStrike Windows VM.  It can't do cross-OS AND breakout.

b) Rent a VPS physically near you, put CrowdStrike on it, and remote into it.

c) Stand your ground and make them pay for the 2nd PC up-front.

I can help you set A or B up.  I’m not shilling Linux tech support because there’s a Windows crisis today.

I’m shilling Linux support because every day is a freedom crisis, but you only realized how centralized the data collection is today because it went wrong. 

 Agree on everything, just here to point out that most winzoz users are foeced by their company to use that OS in the form of "we - thw conpany - provide to you the laptop for working purposes". In such environment, you don't have freedom of choice. 

 are there really companies that still don't issue thinkpads and the like to their developers?