Hi Guys,

My understanding is that Kali is designed and built explicitly for penetration testing, which is a real requirement for large software projects. i.e. to find out if the project you are about to deploy have any predictable security flaws that could be exploited by third parties. I'm not sure it's designed to be treated as a generic distribution for general use. If you're not a penetration tester by trade, starting with Mint, Ubuntu or KUbuntu might be a better bet.

 

hth

Dear all,
I am new user in kali linux, I am using kali from virtualbox windows 10. I tried many time connect my Leo-hg150N usb adapter in kali linux, I can't Possible connect. I commant sudo iwconfig that is showing only wlan0 only. I have internet connect but that only ethernet modem did't show my usb adapter name. and tried airodump-ng wlan0mon. but not get bssid. can you help me...?

thanks & regards
Hinu

Hi Barry.

I'm glad that you found the source of the problem and that you are up & running with Mint.
As you have fixed the original purpose of your topic, please amend the title of your first post to say [Solved]. 

Thanks,
   Keith

Found out where I was going wrong, I download the copy of  linux Cinnoman from the University of Waterloo Computer Science club in Canada, Wrong! There are a lot of things missing in the Canadian version its totally different from the U.K. edition or maybe it was just corrupt, since download it from UK site, wonderful!

 Like most people I am trying to get away from windows 7, I am over the moon with Mint 20 I tried Linux years ago, it was not for me then but it is now!

The only thing I am really missing is Photoshop can somebody please walk me through what I have to do to run it on Mint 20? ( slowly)
Barry.

Hi Barry - looks like it's best if you start again from scratch!

Good news - it's easier than it first appears! 

Your lappy is 64-bit capable so that gives you way more choice of distribution.  When you have decided on which one to go for, (and I would recommend Mint as I use it myself exclusively - others are available - but at least choose a more 'mainstream' one as the support for those is much broader).  And should a particular 'distro' be not to your liking, you can replace it with another with no problem or cost and add to or delete from it to suit your own particular requirements.  Bit different to other systems, eh? 

For example, let's say Mint is the target, copy and paste the link directly into your browser bar -

https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=276

This will take you directly to the official site.  Follow the instructions from there.  This link will not show you the latest version of Mint (that's v20) but one that is well established and has a long support life so should give you a stable and polished OS to begin with  and version Mate rather than Cinnamon as it is more 'user friendly' for Windows converts.  You can easily upgrade later once you are comfortable in Linux.  Also, check out the forum boards.  Under 'Installation and Boot' you'll find plenty of 'how-to's' on setting it up.

Oh, and regarding problems in typing in instructions.....  I assume you mean into the Terminal?  You can simply copy/paste those straight in to avoid errors but be sure to copy all of the string as they can be quite long occasionally!

Hope this helps but if you get stuck, repost on here and we'll walk you through it as best we can.

Welcome to Linux!

Rich