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On 2/16/2019 at 5:26 AM, icarus255 said:

I don't know why people bother installing anything else 😄

I boot up kali every once in a while and I thought tails was pretty good if you need to hit the dark web etc.

 

I have got kali on a machine and re4sons kali on rpi and lint on another, was looking at centos and gentoo maybe later ill switch my daily to one of them

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My first linux distro i tried out was ubuntu very easy to learn. Now i dual boot kali with windows 7 on a desktop , n dual boot kali with windows 10 on a laptop. Been messing around with all sorts of linux distros name em iv booted em up.

Gentoo 

Linux mint

Arch linux

debian 

Slitaz

Tails ( good hacker linux ) after kali would use this .

Black arch 

bugtraq

Red hat

Think i got a copy of backtrack some where

Early kali linux before rolling cant remember its name strarts with a s i think (1.x.x)

N on n on.

 

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you sir are a super linux trouper, I used backtrack 4 and 5 gave tails a spin a couple of times  but now that you mentioning it might have a look at it again, i thought version 1 of kali was  called kali after the end of  backtrack didnt know it was named something else 

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When I first got into Linux (in the late 90s) I tried Caldera, it was quite difficult to configure hardware and any software have to be compiled and built from source tar.gz.....I've tried Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu...many many more..

Oh i've also tried FreeBSD and even gave Haiku a go once.

Now I use Mint Linux on my laptop primarily because its the only Linux that gets my NVIDIA card working with Hashcat.... and I use Ubuntu MATE on my GPD Pocket because it is the only one that works without fuss on that laptop!

If it wasn't a hassle i'd have Mint on the GPD Pocket too.

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On 2/24/2019 at 6:59 AM, Bigbiz said:

My first linux distro i tried out was ubuntu very easy to learn. Now i dual boot kali with windows 7 on a desktop , n dual boot kali with windows 10 on a laptop. Been messing around with all sorts of linux distros name em iv booted em up.

Gentoo 

Linux mint

Arch linux

debian 

Slitaz

Tails ( good hacker linux ) after kali would use this .

Black arch 

bugtraq

Red hat

Think i got a copy of backtrack some where

Early kali linux before rolling cant remember its name strarts with a s i think (1.x.x)

N on n on.

 

Have you tried Black Arch, Thorn or Parrot? Qubes?

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On 2/27/2019 at 3:29 AM, Newbier said:

you sir are a super linux trouper, I used backtrack 4 and 5 gave tails a spin a couple of times  but now that you mentioning it might have a look at it again, i thought version 1 of kali was  called kali after the end of  backtrack didnt know it was named something else 

It was Kali.

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Black arch does have a lot of tools,
No one mentioned Devuan.
I really enjoy it if you keep it all free, I've have no issues with it really. I like being able to use refracta installer to image my system and than re-image it to a live-iso. It's nice to have a portable system with all your favorite programs all pre-installed.

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Gentoo is basically a meme at this point, I used to build that for the first xbox, when I had more time then sense. 

Still use Debian as my day to day laptop os and FreeBSD on everything else. I at one point used a bunch of different OS, now its just those. 

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I have stuck with Linux Mint for years because of how easy it is. I started on Ubuntu 10.04.  Over the years I have at least installed and tried for a day or two...

kali, parrot (home,media,pentest), Ubuntu and all its flavors, arch, Fedora, Suse, Tails, the list goes on

At the end of the day I always go back to Linux Mint 

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There is a place in Minneapolis that refurbishes and recyles electronics. They are called "Free Geek Twin Cities". I pruchased one of their faster Xubuntu machines (a Dell Optiplex) for around $120. It is loaded and ready to go and so easy to use. With office Libre installed, microsoft can sniff my undercarriage. Oh and there was the additional cost of a monitor, 10 bucks or so and a mouse and keyboard, about 2or 3 bucks each. Awesome value!!! A truly power up and fly situation - gotta love it!!!

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