Question : what if I need to access my home computer from a work laptop and I’m not allowed to install things such as the WireGuard VPN client. Do I use native say Windows VPN?

Yeah… unprivileged gets very complicated very fast, I spent days trying to figure out and finally went with privileged Turnkey this is a great video https://youtu.be/I7nfSCNKeck?si=2C9MFH1ifTkI3u9z works like a charm