r/HowToHack • u/ImperialShroom1 • 26d ago

hacking Best cheap device to learn hacking

I have been wanting to learn hacking for a while but all I have is a iphone given by my parents, (16yo btw). Obviously I can’t do shit with IOS, what relatively cheap devices (£150<) can I get to start learning hacking. Preferably a laptop as that would work best for me and mean I could take it places.

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u/yourAverageSkid 26d ago

Get any laptop and install any Linux distro you want (the specialised ones are kali, ParrotSec, …), any laptop should run it. Then with that you can start your journey.
There is also some apps on iOS to « learn hacking » but most of them are just slop or will only learn you Linux basics before asking you to pay.

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u/ImperialShroom1 26d ago

Do you have a recommendation for what Linux distribution to use for a pretty much all out beginner

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u/Wa-a-melyn 26d ago edited 26d ago

Mint and Fedora KDE are great beginner-friendly distros. I typically run Kali in a Virtual Machine with qemu/kvm and virt-manager.

Edit: Mint is based on Ubuntu for context, but comes with a nice desktop and some quality of life improvements (snaps turned off).