No I’m not using Kali for “hacking” I’m experimenting if I can play games on it and I guess my little experiment failed here, I never had a smooth experience with Debian before it always break itself when doing a system updates.

  • jutty@blendit.bsd.cafe
    4·
    5 months ago

    Average Debian system update experience:

    All packages are up to date.
Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    This is nowhere near the average Debian update experience. Debian is favoured precisely for its stability and simplicity, so if youre getting stuff like this, it’s far from average.

    Those errors look like file corruption. Maybe they were partially downloaded or written to a flakey disk, it’s hard to say. I’d also echo the other comment or that Kali (and honestly Debian) are not well suited for gaming due to the distro preference for Freely-licenced software and favouring stability vs quick releases.

    It’s fine if you want to experiment and “swim against the current” to do a thing with a tool for which it’s not designed, but turn around and complain as if this is normal behaviour is either dishonest or outs you as someone who doesn’t have the experience required to make such a statement.

    • poinck@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I game on Debian; it is absolutely up to the task.

      It is called the universal operating system for a reason.

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
    1·
    5 months ago

    Despite all the warnings not to install kali linux, I decided to install kali linux and I am now encountering an issue I would not face had I chosen to use a linux distro designed with normal desktop use in mind. Can anyone help me?

    Actually, modern kali is a lot more usable than the older kali. Kali used to only have a root user, so chromium and electron apps wouldn’t start since they don’t run as root.

    Despite this, nowadays I generally recommend new people away from kali, because I believe the process of installing the tools that kali provides on other distros is a valuable learning experience.

    Kali is great for the professional, but but learners I prefer they get to experience the package manager or other aspects of system management.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    1·
    5 months ago

    Kali ≠ Debian

    I did not see an apt-get update

    In my experience, unmet dependencies are unlikely to happen on a stable version where you only installed from the official repo.

    The LZMA decompression errors point at a much more fundamental issue. I’m suspecting that the repository URLs point at non standard locations or downloads were interrupted, though I’m not sure exactly how, since AFAIK, apt checks the checksum.

    If you must have something that’s not In your distro, do yourself a favour and install Docker and run your package inside there, much less chance of killing your system.

    Source: I’ve been using Debian for over 25 years.