I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Kali is a very bad choice as a desktop or daily driver. It’s intended to be used as a toolkit for security work and so it doesn’t prioritize the needs of normal desktop use in either package management, defaults or patch updates.

    If you ever switched to Linux, pick a distribution you can live with and run kali in a vm like you’re doing now.

    Think of it this way: you wouldn’t move into a shoot house, mechanics garage or escape room, would you?

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        8 months ago

        I used it as an installed desktop environment at a workbench in a non security context for a year. It was a pain in the butt in like a million ways.

        Even when I used the tools kali ships with regularly I either dual booted or ran it inside a vm.

        If you wanna understand why every time someone asks about using kali as a daily driver even on their own forums, a bunch of people pop up and say it’s a bad idea, give it a shot sometime.

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          8 months ago

          Ha no worry, I believe all you guys now and wouldn’t do it, and would just use a VM. Thank you for the insight.