• @boatswain
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    People don’t seriously try to use Kali as a daily driver, do they? That’s just a meme, right? Right?

    • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      there was a point where script kiddies thought using Kali meant installing Kali, so at one point yes it has been used as a daily driver.

      • @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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        387 months ago

        I remember having a conversation with a coworker who was getting into Linux when Kali was a big deal for script kiddies. He told me he installed it and I was like “dude you want it to be a read only OS, don’t install it. Just boot to it from a CD or USB.” We went back and forth on that for weeks until I just gave up and labeled him an idiot in my mind.

        • @Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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          I put it on a dual boot laptop once because the laptop was to shitty to run to a proper VM and I wanted to get updates at a few different points in time. Intel Core 2 Dou and Windows XP as the other OS. It was more of a project laptop than a daily driver though.

          • Soullioness
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            Was windows XP the current windows generation or did you pick it for some other reason? I assume it’ll run easier on weak hardware, and until just now never thought about putting it on my laptop as a dual boot for those moments you actually need windows.

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      When I was a kid I installed it and was like “hooHOO, me hacker”, so there are silly things like that.

      Nevermind me being too intimidated by CLI to do anything in Linux at the time lmfao.

      It’s been a while since I’ve thought about it, so what are the reasons why it’s a bad daily driver? I assume there’s poor support for drivers, hardware, etc.?

      Or is it when you do pen testing you don’t want to leave traces of yourself? I’m not a cybersecurity guy, so I genuinely don’t know.

      • @boblin
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        so what are the reasons why it’s a bad daily driver?

        Don’t need to go any further than “default user is root.”

        • @papertowels@lemmy.one
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          Oh yikes LOL.

          I understand why Kali needs that for Kali things but hoo boy.

          Thanks for succinctly explaining.

    • arthurpizza
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      87 months ago

      I’ve had this conversation with lots of first time Linux users. They think that Kali is the most hardcore hacker OS and that’s what they need to run for a introduction to security course.

      • @boatswain
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        26 months ago

        Actually, Garuda Linux is really easy to use

        I agree; that’s what I use on my main PC. Not sure what that has to do with Kali though.