
It has handy options such as configuring a separate /home partition in the installer, and when we installed it in VirtualBox, it automatically configured the graphics driver, so the desktop resized along with the window and so on. By default, you get the niftiest configuration of Xfce that we've seen since we looked at Zinc last year, complete with an immaculately catalogued app menu.

As a desktop distro, though, it looks pretty good.

It has a bewildering variety of tools, and when installing, you can choose whether you want them all built in, or just a core set. Kali rates highly on Distrowatch – it's currently at number 18, pop-pickers – which we ascribe mainly to its appearances on TV show Mr Robot and the consequent perception that this is a cool tool for élite hackers penetration testers and other security professionals.įor the type of people it targets, it's a handy time-saver.

The default Xfce desktop of Kali Linux 2023.1 is neatly customised, albeit a little shinier than more business-focused distros
