• boatswain@infosec.pub
    7·
    11 months ago

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

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 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.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 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.

    • papertowels@lemmy.one
      3·
      11 months ago

      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@infosec.pub
        3·
        11 months ago

        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
          2·
          11 months ago

          Oh yikes LOL.

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

          Thanks for succinctly explaining.

      • boatswain@infosec.pub
        1·
        11 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.

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    What the fuck the do you have a life question is so offensive! Stop trying to just be edgy in memes!

    I’m so sick of these stupid stereotypes that the Linux community has. I’ll have you know that I use both Debian and Fedora and I do not in fact have a life.

  • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I have been using the same Arch installation for about 8 years. The initial installation/configuration is the only time consuming part. Actual day-to-day usage is extremely easy.

    Maybe this is no longer the case but I previously used Ubuntu and it was actually much more annoying in comparison, especially when upgrading between major revisions or needing to track down sources/PPAs for packages not in the main repos. Or just when you want something more up-to-date than what they’re currently shipping.

    The rolling release model + the AUR saves so much time and prevents a lot of headaches.

  • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Ubuntu has caused me far more headaches and downtime than Arch. Go figure.

    And to make this be a worthwhile comment: I wonder if it is because I use Arch (and derivatives) that Ubuntu causes issues. When something isn’t right, I try and fix it. In Arch I can. In Ubuntu it seems like a dozen paper cuts to get there and it may not work in the long run anyway. Oh the Snap doesnt have foo compiled in? No problem I can add it to the snap directory. No, that didnt work. Ok I will remove it and bring in a .deb file. Dependencies not met. Fine, I will compile it from source… and by that time I have wasted a TON of time.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 months ago

    Replace kali with nixos, and it’d be accurate 😁 Also, gentoo.

    And Kali is more like “are you older than 13 → no”