What would be the better option for privacy. Logging into my windows partition and using zoom just for class logging right back out or install zoom on my linux partition?
If you put zoom in a flatpak and tighten its permissions, it won’t be able to touch the rest of your system
If you’re using X, it would be able to read your inputs for other applications and such, but if you don’t do anything sensitive while it’s running it still won’t be able to do anything.
I would keep it simple and use the zoom web client and restrict as much as possible.
However, if you must have an app, they support linux. Then you can sandbox it as you would other apps on your machine.
Going into another partition might be a bit safer, but I’m not sure the privacy vs convinience tradeoff works.
There is a flatpak zoom app. I guess it can be sandboxes somehow. It would most likely not pose any privacy threat outside of zoom.
But keep in mind that zoom got into it’s privacy policy, that they can record and use for ai anything you do and say during a meeting (if you didn’t allow access to the desktop during the meeting, zoom shouldn’t be able to record it, so most likely won’t matter for that, only what you send through their servers).
You can run it on Linux through Firejail.
Zoom works on Linux just fine
Install some distro on an USB stick and ruin it from there
