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As the distribution developers, one would likely expect us to recommend that everyone use Kali Linux but the fact of the matter is, that Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testing and security auditing.
Is recommended to use Kali Linux as main daily OS?
Nope. Try a regular desktop distro like Linux Mint for your daily OS. All the tools available in Kali are also available in Linux Mint. Just add them one at a time as you start to learn them. You'll save a lot of time.
Later, once you've mastered the individual tools, if you still feel like it, you can carry a Kali image around on a USB stick on your key chain or something.
Distribution: native install of Parrot Home Edition 5.0 Debian (no security tools) 64 bit, KDE, 5.14.0-9parrot1,
Posts: 872
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Originally Posted by jamison20000e
It has backdoors built in for one...
Proof?
Doesn't the code get checked by others, like a committee, from time-to-time? Repositories can be broken into I guess.
I came across this:
"There's plenty of room for backdoors in hardware, thanks to the proliferation of closed-source binary drivers ('blobs'),
which run with kernel privileges; as well as all the black box firmware that comes preloaded onto your hardware."
The Kali Linux maintainers state specifically that it is not designed for persons new to Linux nor for use as a desktop distro. From the docs:
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If you are unfamiliar with Linux generally, if you do not have at least a basic level of competence in administering a system, if you are looking for a Linux distribution to use as a learning tool to get to know your way around Linux, or if you want a distro that you can use as a general purpose desktop installation, Kali Linux is probably not what you are looking for.
In my opinion Kali Linux is not suitable as "normal use" os, all the system is setted up to pentest and using it as desktop os will carry only a waste of memory and resources in running programs that most of users never use.
I never recommended Kali Linux to pentest, i think it has a lot of tools that no one is going to use , i always preferred to have a live usb/desktop distro such arch or debian and add what i needed in every moment, if i never recommended Kali for pentest, you can imagine why i don't recommend it for "normal" use.
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terms that to gain and keep access &c for any hat are built in... 
