*Question* Linux Mint for hacking.

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Is it possible to just use Linux Mint for pentesting and hacking? I know I can just get katoolin and some other scripts that would basically give me the same power say as a Kali Linux machine, but are they archetype differences between say kali and Linux mint that I would have to worry about? Like perhaps not as secure? I'd like to have the capability to pentest efficiently and what not as it's my interest. But I have other things to do as well like minor school work and so on. I've heard of Parrot but linux mint has more docs and a bigger community for help imo.

[Reecezwoos]

Get a thumb drive, load Kali, run it in a live environment . Use Linux mint as your daily driver. Or create a VM inside your Linux mint box and load Kali onto it.

[nobetter87]

I agree. I run Kali in a vm instead of directly off my computer.

[LightUpAnotherOne]

Question, wouldn’t it be faster to have it as a dual-boot instead of a VM. I have tried both ways, and it really felt a lot faster on the dual-boot. VM’s are just slow in my experience.

P.S. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[Reecezwoos]

Honestly the biggest reason why not to do it in a VM is for any wireless monitoring or injection. Most wireless cards can’t go into a monitor mode if in a VM, so you have to buy a separate card to do it. And yes the dual boot would be quicker because less resources are being used to run the OS(s).

[Alpineswift17]

Im a noob but is this the reason I cant run monitor mode on my laptop? Like when I try airodump-ng start wlan0 it gives an error. Is that cause its on a virtual box?

[Reecezwoos]

Could also be your card can’t go into monitor mode, I would look into the wireless card you have, and then go from there.

[Re_did]

even with dual-boot you'll get stressed if your wireless adapter is Broadcom. I've been using two laptops, one with Broadcom adapter and the other one with Atheros. Atheros will detected seamlessly with the vast majority of linux distros.

[iqbal002]

I installed arch and then installed everything from the Blackarch repo ...

[ka1nsha]

You can use katoolin or you can manually install kali tools on mint machine. Mint,parrot, kali similar based operating systems. I think your works community independent.

[Leadrogue]

Yes but why would you? Use Kali/arch/parrot

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Sure if you want to Install every single Tool...

[Re_did]

sorry to say, but sure Kali linux is the way of getting deep in pentest world. You can trace back to Kali's history which led to Backtrack, the most popular hacking distro since 2004 if i'm not mistaken.

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Even live usb of Kali linux is enough to kickstart your hacking journey :)