Thing about this stuff is virtual machines are not even a step most enterprises take for their general employees, as FedPostalService pointed out, if you have a business of any kind standard practice is just to dedicate hardware to it. There's a reason work laptops exist..
I've worked in the security space and met many professionals in my life and typically the response for professional environments is to have that physical barrier between important files and other work (aka allocate machines to different tasks when relevant and in general, unless it's absolutely necessary, don't go on a random website and don't put that software on your professional machine) go through your standard phishing and security training and actually practice it. This is the same advice Youtubers should take because they are a fucking business, a lot of retards like LinusTechTips just don't treat it as such. That is the advice his channel should be going for.
The only real case I've seen VMs being used for an employee's issued device are in pentesting (mostly to use Linux for tools) and forensics. In the forensics case it is to stop the potential of running malware that could come from your evidence so you can kill it off if you fuck up, and so you can start in a clean environment each time as to keep cross examination happy about not "contaminating" evidence. Because those forensics machines are dedicated hardware and shouldn't be trusted for anything outside their specialized task anyway it's not so much for the security aspect as this retard might have you believe.
He glosses over this and says everyone should run VMs and that there's some "advanced setups" he'll enlighten everyone on later. Really he's just fueling his special interest on VMs and making himself seem smart by going against standard security advice because his way is definitely better right? In businesses they have physical layers more than anything else because that's simpler and less fallible than VMs.
VMs are also not practical for everyone as he says, and the idea that "unused RAM is wasted RAM" is fucking retarded when you have 8 or 16 gigs. That unused RAM is used for cache by the operating system and if you try running a VM with 4GB allocated on an 8GB machine you are going to have a rough time on both the host and guest (hell even 16 is pushing it when both machines are running web browsers). I remember having to physically upgrade my RAM for this very reason when I had to start using a VM for a specific purpose about 4 years ago. While it's true a lot of servers use virtualization technology there's a lot of different reasons for this and not what his video is about, he's coming across as he has some special security knowledge that everyone should use to make them as immune to malware as he is, which is fucking retarded.
In short, pootahar is an autistic retard who makes himself feel smart by introducing to Linux and VMs to save us plebs from all of our security woes the way other "experts" can't.
