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    [–] boatswain@infosec.pub 170 points 11 months ago (12 children)

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

    [–] papertowels@lemmy.one 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    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 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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 13 points 11 months ago

    Oh yikes LOL.

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

    Thanks for succinctly explaining.

    [–] CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

    Hasn't been the case anymore for quite some time, even though I think it has quite generous sudo rules. But yes, it's not meant to be your main OS but instead more like a toolbox you use in liveboot/VM/etc.

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