Chapter 2: Kali Linux. — aka the Operating System That Made Me Question My Life Choices
Okay. So. Kali Linux.
Bro… this wasn’t just an operating system. This was a whole personality. Like, Windows is that boring uncle who just wants you to update drivers and restart. MacOS is the rich aunt sipping matcha and judging your fonts. But Kali? Kali is the emotionally unstable hacker cousin who drags you into a basement full of terminals and whispers, “Let’s do something illegal but safe.”
Tbh, I wasn’t ready.
My First Time Installing Kali: Chaos.exe
So I sat down one night — 1am, fan spinning, YouTube tutorial open on one tab, ISO file downloading on the other. I was excited. Like “I’m finally becoming a hacker” level delusional.
I chose dual boot. Big mistake.
Bhai, boot loader ka scene samajhne mein hi mere 4 brain cells short-circuit ho gaye. “GRUB install failed” errors, missing partitions, Windows boot hi nahi kar raha tha. Matlab, maine toh ethical hacking seekhna tha — yeh toh meri zindagi hack kar gaya.
And then when I finally installed it (after 6 reinstallations, 2 USBs, and 1 existential crisis), I booted it up and saw the black screen with that dragon logo. Man, that dragon stared into my soul. Like it knew I was about to suffer.
The Interface Looked Like a Hacker’s Desktop in a Netflix Show
Black background. Terminal open by default. No animations. Just cold, raw interface like:
“Welcome to the dark side. Here’s your terminal. Figure it out.”
I typed ls like a boss. Felt cool for 2 seconds.
Then I typed apt update and it threw 7 errors at me in red text.
I literally blinked twice and whispered, “Kya mazaak chal raha hai yahan pe?”
Kali Tools Are Both Sexy and Sadistic
Let me explain. Kali Linux comes preloaded with 600+ tools. Sounds amazing right? Like a full hacker’s toolbox. You got:
- Nmap: to scan networks
- Burp Suite: to mess with web requests
- Hydra: to brute force logins
- Metasploit: to launch attacks
- Wireshark: to sniff traffic like an online bloodhound
But here’s the catch — yeh sab tools tumhe pehle samajhne padte hain. And trust me, they don’t make it easy.
Mujhe laga tha tool chalana matlab double-click aur chal gaya. But no. It’s command-line heavy. Most of these tools want you to cry. One misplaced flag and nothing works. It’s like you’re defusing a bomb and someone swapped the wires for spaghetti.
Once I ran Metasploit just to impress myself. Typed msfconsole. It launched. I was like “LET’S GOOOO.” Then I sat there. For 30 minutes. Because I didn’t know what to do next.
The First Time I Used Nmap: Felt Like a Villain
Okay this part lowkey felt powerful. I scanned my own IP. Dekha ports open hain. Services kaunsa chal raha hai, OS guess kiya. Felt like Batman snooping around Gotham.
But then I used it on a friend’s device (with permission, chill), and his antivirus went off like crazy. He freaked out. I freaked out. We both uninstalled everything and decided to never speak of it again.
Lesson learned: even ethical hacking can look hella unethical if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Kali Doesn’t Handhold — It Body Slams You
Windows ya Mac pe tumhe saari cheezein spoon-fed milti hain. Buttons. GUIs. Pop-ups. But Kali?
Kali is like, “You want to connect to WiFi? Cool. Open terminal. Type 4 commands. Enter root password. Configure drivers. Sacrifice a goat. Then maybe, maybe, I’ll connect.”
There were legit moments where I just stared at the screen, like bro, yeh operating system hai ya villain origin story?
Why tf Would Anyone Use This Daily?
I actually tried to use Kali Linux as my main OS for a week. Because I was dumb. Thought I’d become pro fast.
Biggest regret.
Half the stuff didn’t work out of the box. Battery drained like my will to live. Couldn’t play videos properly. Chrome kept crashing. Aur software compatibility ka toh poochho hi mat — I tried installing Zoom and almost nuked the system.
Kali isn’t meant for daily use. It’s for testing. Penetration testing, specifically. It’s like trying to live inside a gym. You can train there. But sleep? Chill? No way, bro.
But If You Survive Kali, You’re Built Different
And yet… something changed. Over time, I started understanding things. The commands started making sense. I didn’t panic every time I saw an error. Terminal became my friend.
I used to fear typing commands. Ab kabhi kabhi random sudo apt install something-something likh ke dekh leta hoon, just for fun.
Kali teaches you the why behind every action. You stop being a “click-next” guy and start becoming the “I know what’s happening under the hood” type.
Still Not Gonna Lie — It Broke Me
There were nights where I wanted to uninstall everything and go back to playing Subway Surfers. My chai would go cold, my room lights would flicker (or maybe I imagined that), and I’d be stuck trying to understand why my adapter wasn’t being recognized.
Once I thought my system got hacked because I hacked myself by mistake. Don’t even ask. Long story.
But here’s the real thing: Kali humbles you.
It doesn’t care if you’re a CS student or a self-taught tech bro. It makes you work for every ounce of knowledge. And when you finally get it working? That joy? It’s like finally untangling your headphone wires after 3 hours.
Anyway. If you’ve made it this far — congrats. You’re either curious, crazy, or both. Kali Linux isn’t for the faint-hearted. But if you can survive it, you’re already ahead of 90% of people out there clicking ads that say “Free iPhone giveaway.”
Next chapter? We dive into Metasploit — the tool that made me feel like a god and then immediately like an idiot.
Cool? Cool. Chai garam karo. Terminal khol lo. It’s about to get worse.
Now Next chapter is on how to install kali linux in VMware / vartual box .
Stay tune.
Peace.
Kali Linux Downloading Link : https://www.kali.org/
