I’ve always heard thst one shouldn’t use Kali as daily driver OS. The reasoning is usually that you’re always logged in a s root in Kali and related security issues. This doesn’t seem to be the case in new versions. If I disable the legacy services in the hardening section of Kali Tweaks, is there any compelling reason not use as my daily OS? Kali runs smooth, I like the desktop, and the devs seem to be more cautious with updates. I haven’t had to spend hours getting things up and running after an update that rendered my system unusable such as happened to my usualy daily driver recently.
Actually you are very rarely logged in as root on Kali these days, its just old information that keeps getting repeated.
(if you need elevated privileges, you would normally use sudo - root is rarely ever needed, and is actively discouraged from typical use, though many old tutorials still show it used that way)
Kali can be used as a daily driver!
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Kali used to come with the root account only enabled. Some people said this was a security vulnerability. Even back then, it wasn’t a security issue if you just used the additional step of creating another user.
Nowadays kali comes with the kali account and the kali account is in the sudoers list. None of Kali’s documentation will tell you to log in as root.
The only reason I can think of to not use it as my daily driver, is if you, or an update, or some script you run, messes up your system, about the only support you will get on here is to just do a reinstall.
In 2025, it’s an extremely stable OS.
This has saved me in the past and no need for a full reinstall.
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Thanks for the replys everyone! That’s what I was thinking, glad to have it confirmed. I’ve been using Lubuntu as a daily driver, it’s a great distro but the recent update broke it, and other Ubuntu based distros for quite few people. I guess the new kernel version used just does not work on intel based macs, possibly macs in general, will not load at all. It’s fixable, but it’s a bit of a headache. Which got me thinking, I like everything about Kali better, and have not experienced such a complete update fail with it.