Instructions for installing Kali Linux on Windows 10 are easier than ever

You can download and install Kali Linux directly from the Microsoft App Store on Windows 10 as easily as installing any other application. This is a guide to installing Kali Linux on Windows 10, without USB boot, virtualization software at all.

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It sounds incredible, but this is the truth.

Kali Linux is a Linux-based, open-source, free operating system and is widely used in hackers, penetration testing. It is now possible to run Kali Linux as an application on Windows 10 without dual booting or virtualization.

Kali Linux is the latest Linux distribution provided on the Windows App Store, after Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and SUSE Enterprise Linux.

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In Windows 10, Microsoft has provided a feature called Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows users to run Linux applications directly on Windows.

"In the past few weeks, we have been working with Microsoft WSL to bring Kali Linux to the Microsoft App Store as an official WSL distribution and today Kali Linux has officially appeared on Microsoft App Store," the Kali Linux team said. know.

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Run Kali Linux on Windows 10

If this is your first time using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you need to enable this option before downloading Kali Linux.

Follow these steps to enable WSL:

Open Control Panel> Apps and features (or Programs )> Programs and Features > Select T urn Windows features on or off

Select Windows Subsystem for Linux and save it> Restart the computer.

Alternatively, open PowerShell under Admin and run the following command:

 Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux 

You open Kali Linux page on Microsoft App Store, click Get to download.

Click Launch to install Potassium automatically and open the control panel window.

Kali Linux will automatically install on Windows 10, takes about 10 to 15 minutes.

Request to create user account when installing:

You enter the username, enter the password and re-enter the password again to confirm.

If you want to enable the GUI for Kali Linux, enter the command:

 login to tty1 
 apt-get update 
 apt-get upgrade -y 
 apt-get install -f gdm3 

If Kali Linux requires root access, add sudo first, remember the password set in the previous step because adding sudo will require you to enter the password.

 sudo login to tty1 
 sudo apt-get update 
 sudo apt-get upgrade -y 
 sudo apt-get install -f gdm3 

If you are interested in activating Kali's desktop environment, here are video tutorials for installing xfce4 and xrdp to connect Kali Linux via Remote Desktop.

To install an penetration testing tool, such as metasploit, you use the same command as on the normal Kali version:

 apt-get update 
 apt-get install metasploit-framework 

If root is required, just add sudo before the commands.

This Kali Linux distribution is good news for security experts and penetration testers with limited toolset.

Kali Linux on Windows doesn't have any built-in hack or penetration testing tools, but you can easily install it later.

If the antivirus application or Windows Defender tells Kali Linux to be dangerous, you can enable false alerts or turn off the antivirus application temporarily to use. Although some users report this, when I try to install it, Windows Defender doesn't notice anything.

Microsoft is making its commitment to the open source community. In 2013, the company launched Visual Studio, a year later .NET, 2015 turned Visual Studio Code Editor into open source, 2016 brought Ubuntu to Windows 10, worked with FreeBSD to develop Virtual Machine image for Azure cloud. , choose Ubuntu as the operating system for Big Data services running in the cloud and join the Linux Foundation as Platinum - the highest membership level.

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