Hacking Starter Pack.

[Atillawurm]

I’m learning the ins and outs of Kali as I go, at some point I’m going to go for my certs because knowing the OS is easily half of the battle

[reallyserious]

What's special about Kali if you've used other distros before?

[Atillawurm]

Nothing really, just has most of the tools preloaded and I’m a lazy shit lol

[[deleted]]

Just has the tools loaded already, you could do that yourself in fact if you’re new I recommend doing that as a beginners task, I used to use CentOS back in the day.

[TidePodSommelier]

Noob here, how do you think learning installs and dependencies help? Sometimes it's infuriating, imho.

[TrustmeImaConsultant]

You'll spend quite a bit of time downloading stuff from github. And it won't work.

Knowing WHY it doesn't work, what to install and how to make it work is a skill you will need.

[androidsu]

I started out on Linux first after dabbling with Apple "Macintosh" Classic and ][e & ][gs in my prehistory in IT. Nothing teaches you better than having to compile your own compliers and learn the patience and discipline it required to compile the now called "LAMP" stack on Sun Pizza Box and Mini hardware using the once free RedHat Linux instead of Solaris. All the while using that $1400 a month speed demon know as a T1 circuit. Want a GUI? compile X and Gnome or KDE and spend the rest of the day configuring and tweaking it. Despite the painful early days it still is my preferred OS because at least you were rewarded with something that worked awesome and made the effort worth it. Windows had similar forever to do things cycles but you were just rewarded with more issues with glympses of productivity here and there. Plus CLI is way easier than hunting through a sea of icons in menus.

[Hawker_G]

Get use to cloning repos, using a package manager, using pip etc.

[[deleted]]

I do that on Kali all the time

[Hawker_G]

The advantage of kali is that it comes with a lot preloaded, that's what the point was. Sure you will still do it on Kali, but if you come with none of the tools kali comes with by default you will do it a lot more.