Choosing Your Distro
Since the first edition of our book, a lot has changed with Kali Linux. Besides Kali now being a Rolling Distribution, it now comes with several Desktop Environments and several different kernel architectures. This means you can run Kali from a small Raspberry Pi or from a full-blown workstation built for speed and power. By adding a normal user account and a little extra configuration and packages, you can make Kali your Daily Driver OS. In this chapter, we will discuss the several desktop environments and the pros and cons of each. This will help you decide which distro to download for your trip into the world of hacking with Kali. If you are not familiar with Linux, this chapter helps give you some under the hood
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