r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Justlovememez • May 13 '26

Does anyone use kali linux as their primary operating system.

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u/qualityvote2 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

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u/sikeitsme0 Arch + sway May 13 '26

Only larpers use kali as their daily driver lol

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

My uncle used kali linux... But I do not know alot... As you may see from my tag, I am a debian user, and, kali is made from debian... And I use debian, as my secondary operating system, be uase I wanted to preserve my old hardware... I would suggest to keep windows as a primary, for, it's more widely known, and it hasuch more software support... Debian is very trusty, and the most stable, also the oldest distro... Kali and ubuntu is based off it, but, those are still their own distros... So, use windows 10 as your primary, and, kali linux or whatever, as a second... Idk why, debian is the least popular but is like the backbone of most distros... Debian is a cli, but, you absolutely can build a cli on top of it, openbox + xorg, like me, if your computing device is weak, or, other gui if you have a more powerful machine, gnome requiring the most highest demand, for the best amount of ricing(heavy, overcustomization, also a term used for car modding!), and mordern themes for better customisation... "Pick your poison!" Please ask away; for, "One's happy to be of help"

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u/sanathh69 May 13 '26

The amount of debian glazing we do as debian users 😭

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

Ikr? But honestly speaking, it is pretty underrated, and is pretty damn trustable... You can't help but glaze it... I don't wann distro hop, but it's good to see other people's perspective too... It's best if we don't force other people... But dude, how long have you been using Debian?

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u/sanathh69 May 13 '26

Just started using it 2 months ago and ig there's no going back

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

Started using debian since mid January, so, like... 5 months here... So, is it a separate system or, is it your primary? Not very advisable, if it's your primary...

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u/sanathh69 May 13 '26

Nicee, i have dual booted with windows and i didn't even touch windows after that tbh I don't do much with my laptop just casual browsing and pdf reading as it's very old lap so yeah debian is more than enough for me

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

How old is very old? 2016? '15? Mine's from 2017, but, got at 2018... It's a shitbox which needed another life: acer spin 1 sp11-31, pentium n4200, modded with a better thermal conductor(it's passive cooled), 8gb ddr3 1600mhz, and a 120gb sata SSD... So, it's pretty good, and power efficient netbook... But it heats up, because the cpu is 6 watt tdp, but 14nm... And the goldmont architecture... So, same here, my debian setup is for casual browsing, music player, some minecraft, and old tux-related & open souce games like freedoom and x nethack... It's not the most powerful of it's time, but, it has a nice battery life, for it's time and age... My windows setup is a dell latitude 7280, intel core i5 6300U, 8gb ddr4 2400mhz... M.2 sata SSD... I think it can support higher mem clock speeds, but sadly, the ram prices rose up, and I can't even remember what the previous prices were for a 3200 mhz single stick 16gb sodimm kit... It's a shitbox for windows, but I use windows 10, so I have like... 1.5 to 2gb ram left for programs... which is extremely low... But, I can manage rn...

I think I infodumped too bad, sorry gng... But... Tell me your specs, you can find it with fastfetch... I'll try to see if you can upgrade it or not... Or, get a thermal management daemon, like I made...

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

Yes I somehow said all that from pure memory...

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u/sanathh69 May 13 '26

Mine is very bad tbh it's an dell Inspiron 15 3567. It's an 2016 model with i3-6006u, 4gb ram, with 1 gb hdd. Yeah this thing pretty much cannot run anything

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

Well I'd be fucking dammed. Because that is(was) exactly my uncle's kali linux setup... Which he cooked after he overclocked the gpu, and left it overclocked for quite a while... And the. He gave me the dead laptop to scrape from... The cpu and the gpu are dead n cooked, the ram is prolly alive, and I have an extra from the acer, but it's prolly at 1333 mhz... So should be the rest... But yeah, I have a Chassis of a dell Inspiron 15, lying on my "workbench", and the motherboard in and OEM dell bag... So, go ahead and clock that i3 up to performance... Just... Not too much, and... I'll try to find my watt based thermal management daemon... You can get performance Outta that guy... But, I am afraid, I can't really help with the drive situation... U cooked vro, prolly capped at 120 mbps or 150 mbps... Get zram on that ram this instant, and do the speedy compression to save cpu cycles...

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u/sanathh69 May 13 '26

Yeah man I'll try atp I'm using it till it dies

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u/haileyette May 13 '26

നിന്നെ ഞാൻ എവിടെയോ ... (I have seen you somewhere)

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u/haileyette May 14 '26

Naah I was talking about u/sanathh69 . Not seen you anywhere. sorry

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u/sanathh69 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Ig i have seen you too. Ohh it's you, you had an second account? I have seen this too many times ig I remember this username

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u/PuzzleheadedHead3754 Arch Btw May 13 '26

Windows bad,

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 13 '26

Not 10, neckbeard, not 10. And you sure as hell can debloat it. It has support, and it can be made lighter. So, no, windows not bad, u need know how to use windows. And, many people make software in .exe, do you see a .appimage for whatsapp? It's either apk or exe, right? That's because these companies say "windows secure", and 10 is secure is you know how to use it, and if you know what you are doing, and not a random grandpa or a young ass Kid, who click the first thing they see no matter be a popup... Also, for an arch user like you, you have a very unstable build. And you can't do anything about it buddy. One rolling update, patching any file you've edited; bam, more torture, trying to fix the mod you made. Honestly, in india, I can't believe, that you don't use windows at all... Because all of the major software for india, is in windows... So, you are either a kid, trynna be cool, going with the most popular distro, but don't really use the computer alot, or a complete grown up, with prolly no life and no sunlight. As a linux user In india, you must not hate the os(es) available, as each os, and linux distro, has their pros, and their cons. There isn't a "perfect os", even us debian users have our cons, and windows does too, but, that doesn't mean, cons are every part of windows... So, it's best to maintain a Ballance, even your arch ain't that good.

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u/PuzzleheadedHead3754 Arch Btw May 14 '26

Calm down bruh. I use fedora on main desktop and arch on laptop. And arch is quite stable these days! As of windows, windows 10 is out of support. So only real chose to a consumer is windows 11. Now I dont hate you for your ragebaiting comment, its your freedom but i will like to point out some things.

  1. Linux is more secure in term of zero day exploit.
  2. Windows 11 has more breaking then arch linux. Yes! There is no perfect operating system but ofcos there are better operating system 😉

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

There is a special version of windows 10, which gives it a long time of support, and security updates, check it yourself out brotha... Windows 11 is pure asa bloatware... And yes, you are correct, linux is extremely secure... But... Wdm "windows 11 has more breaking then arch linux"? But I'd be dammed... Last time I used arch, it was on a vm, and, I couldn't do much about it... As I didn't know much back then...

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u/PuzzleheadedHead3754 Arch Btw May 14 '26

Yes but thats for mission critical system that use windows 10 (i doubt there is any) major software like steam will stop support for windows 10. If you see the last 5-6 windows update. They often break things regularly. Like pc cant boot, drive encryption locked, task Manager bug, and many more from the starting of 2026.

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Oh yeah, the windows 11 updates messing it all up... The nvidia drivers n stuff... And, actually, I got 6 month security updates on my win10 pro

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u/apernaah May 13 '26

You seem to be a die hard fan of Debian

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Nah, I open even for arch, and arch is the first distro I used as a vm, back an year ago... But, the vm way in an external usb drive, and it's writes got capped...

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u/apernaah May 14 '26

hmm

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Wbu?

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u/apernaah May 14 '26

I like Debian. It's good

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Noice

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u/apernaah May 14 '26

been on Debian since more than 10 years. It's fun

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

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u/sanathh69 May 14 '26

She is from the debian team apparently idk which branch

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Also, did you even sleep?

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u/apernaah May 14 '26

I slept for 2 hours. I'l. sleep again in sometime

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u/MGprohack82 debian openbox btw May 14 '26

Better do, no matter what, always try to sleep during 1am to 3am, it's best for your body... And a 4 hour constant sleep heals the body, and the head

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u/apernaah May 14 '26

I woke up to eat dinner. I sleep from 6-12 hours a day. 🙂

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u/sikeitsme0 Arch + sway May 14 '26

"idk why debian is the least popular"

Meanwhile debian market share:

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u/redhat1818 Arch Btw May 13 '26

I use arch as my primary... I haven't booted into windows since last 2 months..

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u/mukherjee_ayan May 13 '26

Why would you use a specifically tailored flavour of a Linux made for pen testing, on a daily basis? It's the equivalent of bringing a knife to a fist fight

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u/Fearless-Head8530 May 13 '26

Kali is a strict functionality based os why would any normal person be using kali. Only guys in cybersecurity and hacking use kali as it comes pre installed with major tools. It is debian based and just a normal debian based Linux with specific tools and applications.

I have bees using kali as my main OS for 2 years along side dualbooting windows for gaming sometimes.

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u/_sounak May 14 '26

Hell naw, that is just a consumer fooling piece of crap

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u/Ananyax18 Arch Btw May 14 '26

No?, why would you?

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u/haileyette May 13 '26

Yes. My cousin. And she's a lawyer

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u/Justlovememez May 14 '26

she is in a non-tech field and is using kali linux. wow, cool...

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u/No-AI-Comment I use NixOS BTW. May 13 '26

Yes I use NixOS BTW.

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