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You definitely shouldn't use it as a daily. However, Offensive Security is trying to make it a smooth experience given that quite a bit of time is spent using it for penetration tests, CTFs, etc in addition to "competition" from ParrotOS. Most folks that I know would switch to it anyway so having it be the default makes it easier.

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Can you elaborate why someone shouldn't use it as a daily driver?

I have used Linux for a decade now and I just got a friend interested in it and his pick was Kali because he was interested in learning about security stuff.

I took a quick look at it and saw that it was debian based and XFCE is my favourite desktop environment so I figured he'd be alright with it.

It used to be that Kali would start a ton of services at boot and open those ports up to the LAN interface. Stuff like Postgresql that you probably don't want to expose any wider than localhost.

It also defaulted to running as a root user for everything, but they recently changed that.

Hmm I don't remember that ever being true. Items like Postgress would listen on localhost only. No services outside of DHCP were even enabled by default going all the way back to BackTrack.

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