I use both Pinboard.in to store bookmarks with tags since it lets me search the full text of the link in addition to any text I include in the bookmark description I also use Pocket for articles or pages I want to read later since it can even read them out loud on my phone using text-to-speech. It even integrates with Pinboard via an API if you want.

Our team used to mainly use SourceTree (SourceTreeApp.com) but have recently moved over to Fork (git-fork.com). Fork has recently started popping up a dialog asking to pay for a $49.99 license, but the evaluation seemed to not be limited by a number of days. Depending on how this plays out we may switch back to SourceTree as there are not many feature differences (except SourceTree kept having random updates that would crash the app periodically).

I'm not sure I have a great use-case other than crappy laptops, just curious after playing with Docker and the idea of layering. Figured ya'll might know something I don't ;)

Wow, you nailed it. Symantec Workspace Virtualization is exactly what I was looking for (too bad it's discontinued lol) Symantec Workspace Virtualization - Wikipedia[^]

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Originally pioneered by Altiris and based on technology acquired from FSLogic and named Software Virtualization Solution, SWV allows applications and data to be put into virtual layers (application layers and data layers) instead of being installed to the base file system and Registry. This is achieved through the use of a filter driver and layering technology Altiris acquired from FSLogic. By placing applications and data into managed layers called Virtual Software Packages (VSP's), SWV allows on-the-fly activation, deactivation, or reseting of applications, to avoid conflicts between applications, and to remove them cleanly without altering the base Windows installation.

I'll have to check out Cameyo!

Yeah, Docker for Windows is really great and what gave me the idea. I'm just looking for something similar but that is based on my actual System OS instead of a separate docker image, so I'm only running one OS instead of the two normally necessary with Docker. I might be misunderstanding how Docker actually works but usually the docker image you create is based on a different image you download, for example Windows 10, Windows Server, or Windows Nano, etc whereas I want to use the Windows OS already installed on my laptop as the base image if that make sense.

Since my laptop is a little constrained in terms of RAM and CPU I was essentially hoping for something similar to a virtual machine or docker but that is based on the System OS running on my laptop, rather than having to run 2 separate OS's if that makes sense.

After playing around with Docker I started wondering if something exists that provides similar functionality for Windows. Say I have a new laptop that I got from HP (I do), I want to be able to create a VHD that I could somehow launch that would then virtually store any changes to my Windows installation, files, registry, etc as another layer on top of what is running on my laptop. I would then be able for example install development software like Visual Studio. Even better I could have two of these VHDs with different versions of Visual Studio, maybe one is a Preview I want to play with. When I'm doing with it, I just delete the VHD and my system is back to the way it came from the factory. I seem to remember 20 years ago when I worked in IT in college we had some software we used for lab computers that kinda worked like this, Deepfreeze maybe? Thanks for any ideas if ya'll know of something like this.