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How to (actually) choose a Linux distro (www.youtube.com)

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I just enjoyed the presentation and the amount of work that went into it. 🙂

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

Both BlackArch and Kali are pen testing distros. I guess they see the natural evolution as one from newb to hacker (ethical or otherwise).

Outside of the default packages, there is not much difference between Kali / BlackArch and their base distros (Debian / Arch).

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