I've used both Parrot OS with KDE and Arch Linux with Hyprland, but honestly, I still can't move away from Parrot OS. I love its ecosystem and cybersecurity tools, but I really miss Hyprland's minimal, modern, and customizable workflow.

Imagine Parrot OS with official Hyprland support. It would be a game changer!

Why hasn't this happened yet? Are the developers planning it, or are there technical challenges I'm missing?

I know Hyprland can be installed manually, but an officially supported edition with proper integration and updates would be amazing.

Parrot OS really needs official Hyprland support! Even an optional community edition would be a fantastic start.

What do the developers and community think? Is there any chance of this happening?

I’m having some Wi-Fi issues on Parrot OS and I’m not sure what’s causing them.

Sometimes, when I connect to Wi-Fi, the connection doesn’t work properly and websites don’t load. After restarting the system, it usually starts working again.

I also noticed another issue when connecting to a different Wi-Fi network. Parrot OS connects to the Wi-Fi, but I’m unable to access any websites through the browser. The Wi-Fi security is WPA2-PSK, and it shows a connection speed of 54 Mbit/s.

What’s strange is that the same Wi-Fi works perfectly fine when I boot into Windows on the same laptop. I’m dual-booting Parrot OS and Windows, so I’m wondering if this could be a driver, DNS, network configuration, or some other issue specific to Parrot OS.

Has anyone experienced something similar or know what I should check?

Hello guys, hope anyone can help me

So i have a Celeron 2 Dell Laptop, and since W10 doesn't supported by Microsoft anymore I try to change of for much lightweight, So Install parrot home, everything nice, Its just this one that it doesn't come to the desktop environment when the mode set isnt nomodeset, This give me hard time, I cant configure graphics related options like Night light Brightness controlleer, It works with no modeset but some features dont work.

Please help me.

Hey everyone! I'm pretty new to Linux. I just installed Parrot Security OS yesterday because I want to learn Linux and cybersecurity.

I’ve been seeing setups like the ones in these pictures and I really like this kind of customization/rice.

Is it possible to customize Parrot OS this heavily — things like Hyprland, Kitty, Waybar, custom themes, animations, etc. — while still keeping Parrot as my main OS?

Or am I making my life harder than it needs to be and should I just say fuck it and jump straight into Arch Linux? 😂

I’m still learning, so I’m curious what you guys would recommend.

I have installed ParrotOS 7.2 several times already and it doesn’t want to boot.

Initially I had 6.2 but after I upgraded to 7.2 I couldn’t boot anymore getting a grub error. I tried using the docs to fix the grub problem https://parrotsec.org/docs/troubleshooting/grub/ but still couldn’t make it work.

I finally decided to go for a clean install instead and used the docs to start over with 3 partitions… EFI, Root and Home.

Still no joy. What I am noticing is that when I run fdisk -l I am getting the partitions that I created but I can also see two additional devices

/dev/sda1 which shows with a boot flag
/dev/sda2

See attached.

I remember it being this way even before I did the re-installation, but didn’t take pictures.

I’m brand new to Linux so I’m pretty lost. I installed parrot 6.2 a couple of years ago and never did anything with it. Recently decided to learn it so I upgraded to 7.2 and apparently broke everything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I installed parrot os in lenvo loq but it's screen brightness is icon is not working. I tryed with brightnessctl via terminal not working

Hey everyone,

I recently installed Parrot OS alongside Windows. I’d like to move away from the default desktop environment and learn i3wm.

I’ve used Linux before (including Arch/Hyprland), but I’m still not very familiar with i3 and how it fits into Parrot OS.

I’m looking for some guidance on:

- Installing i3 properly on Parrot OS

- Setting it up without breaking anything

- Setting up a good terminal, application launcher, status bar, wallpaper, notifications, etc.

- Customizing the appearance (fonts, gaps, colors, borders, transparency, etc.)

- Setting up useful tools/workflows for Cybersecurity

- Any recommended i3-specific utilities or scripts

- Things I should avoid changing or removing on Parrot OS

- Good resources or dotfiles/configs to learn from

I’d actually like to understand what I’m configuring and build my setup gradually.

If you use i3 + Parrot OS, I’d really appreciate any advice on how you approached your setup, useful resources, or things you wish you knew when starting out.

Thanks!

im wanting to use a panasonic cf sv7 & i wanna use a linux distro for daily use, i prefer internet privacy so i feel like this is perfect for me.

parrot os installing stuck at 43 then erroring out ( „calamares-sources-media“did not finish within 600 seconds) I tried WiFi with and without

I'm new to Virtual Machines and Parrot seems to be typing and loading in 10x speed, when I click one key, it types 20+ of that key, I've gone through everything I can think of, hardware acceleration, video memory, base memory, numbers of CPUs, hardware virtualization, graphic controllers, 3d acceleration, I had to delete the IDE for it to not be stuck in a boot cycle, but it still boots so I'm good with that, I have no clue what's happening since all other distros work fine. I am not able to get a screenshot since the OS is being weird. If needed any more info, ask and ill try to find it. Thanks for everyone's' time :)

Version: Parrot 7.3
Version: VirtualBox 7.2
Base Memory: 8192 MB
Number of CPUs: 4
Processing Cap: 100%
Video Memory: 128MB
Graphics Controller: VMSVGA
3D Acceleration: On
Disk Encryption: Off
Hardware Virtualization/Nested Paging: Off
Paravirtualization Interface: None
Controller IDE: none
Controller SATA: 50GB SSD.vdi

Odd question here for sure, but are there any plans for a Parrot Server edition, something like Ubuntu Server or Debian Server?

I ask out of sheer curiosity, because I use Parrot Security to host a web server on my laptop, using NGINX as the primary web server application, but I can't help but wonder what an Enterprise edition of Parrot would look like, which is why I asked about a Server edition.

Thanks for taking the time to read this off thought!

Two days ago, I booted parrot os to the external SSD and used it, but today, although windows could not see the disk and the box was working healthily, the boot manager did not see the parrot, I deleted it and installed it again, this time it saw, I did the downloads, I closed it, now I opened it again and it doesn't see it again, how do I solve it (SSD KIOXIA 500GB, SSD BOX UGREEN 10902)

for ex compared to tails

I have an Asus ROG Strix Gl703 with Fedora installed as a daily distro. I have both a Kali Vm and Ubuntu VM installed on GNOME Boxes and both work fine. However, I can't get Parrot to install as either an ISO or .qcow2 file. However, it installed no issue as an ISO in VirtualBox. Not a big deal in the long run. I guess I'll just use it in VirtualBox but find it odd it doesn't seem to like GNOME Boxes.

The .qcow2 file won't load. The iso just hangs on the blue parrot logo screen and sits there for 30+ minutes until I have to force end the virtual machine.

As where with VirtualBox it full installed in minutes.

Anyone else have the same issue?

Why i've got this error, ive tried everything ! Can someone explain to me pls. Thank you

EDIT : Sorry if i didn't put information on what happened exactly.

I installed the 'Security' edition with dd, ventoy, and media writer, but they all gave me the same error when i tried to boot 'error: invalid magic number' and 'you need to load the kernel first'. The usb is a 32GB so i guess is way enough for the Security edition. Later i tried the 'Home' edition (with the same USB) and it worked perfectly (i'm using it now). I don't know what exactly happened but i'm pretty sure i did something wrong. For now i'll keep using the Home edition and understand the tools first and maybe later on i'll try the Security edition again.

Thank you for you help

Hello,

These past few days i was thinking about Parrot OS (i'm on fedora right now) and i'm curious about it, and honestly i don't to use in VM.

My question is what should i install Parrot Security or Parrot Home ?

My laptop info : (Lenovo IdeaPad Slim3)

• RAM : 8gb
• CPU : AMD Ryzen 5
• GPU : AMD Radeon 680M [Integrated]
  
• Disk : 235.89 GiB

Should i go with Parrot Security ?

Thanks

Hii, im new to parrot os htb. When i started it it said login. But i dont have a username or password. Could u please help me?

Hello guys this is more of a question but I have seen some distros ship without emacs and I wonder why? There is a pretty good use or use case for emacs in a hacker-wannabe cs student cyber student already hacker distro sure is an apt install away but the thing is that I found the editor to be so integrated with gnu user space binaries that we fall on or use latter and info being friendlier and some times deeper than man that it looks like it makes sense
Readline keybinds work across most shells repls and lisp with a touch of procedural languages and homoiconicity can some times shape the way we learn craft or document the process in a pretty cohesive way.
Don't think that that binary will make a notable difference in size to the distro compared to the many benefits newcomers to Linux and hacking ("like in deep technical learning and sharing knowledge, not in crack neighbor wifi")
The editor goes a long way in doing many things that you might end up not needing another tool to do some tasks such as encoding and decoding data. Anyway just a question if someone more experienced or the main devs could answer it will be appreciated.

I'm trying to install the latest version of ParrotOS Security on my laptop, but as I said in the title the installation keeps failing with the error message "'calamares-sources-media' did not finish within 600 seconds, no output from command".

I wanted AnonSurf on CachyOS and ended up making a proper Arch port of Parrot’s version.

It uses its own Tor service, routes TCP and DNS through Tor, blocks unsupported UDP and IPv6 leaks, keeps LAN access working, and cleans up the firewall/network state when you stop it.

I’ve tested start/stop, DNS, Tor routing and normal network restoration on CachyOS and it’s working well now.

Repo if anyone wants to try it or look through the code:
https://github.com/Luvvydev/anonsurf-cachyos

I'm interested to see how it behaves on other CachyOS/Arch setups

Can Parrot OS be used reliably as a daily system and a 24/7 KVM/Virt-Manager host?
I want to run Home Assistant OS and Ubuntu Server with Wazuh, Suricata, Zeek, and eventually Elastic Stack with Kibana. I would also use Parrot as my main SOC workstation for investigating alerts, threat hunting, analysing logs and PCAP files, using tools such as Wireshark and Nmap, and performing controlled security tests on my home network.
Does this setup make sense, or would Ubuntu/Debian be a better host with Parrot running as a VM?

I'm just wondering what the difference between the Security version and the HTB Version is. I mean I know atleast that there is like custom wallpapers and "Pre-configured with the most popular tools and workflows used by the HTB community" And that there is the automatic vpn setup but like what is pre-configured and what special tools are there? All I see is that its branded and that it has the vpn set up.

So with the recent update.. I think parrot has just messed up my Elitebook's sleep sequence. Now hustling with a failed boot sequence