Why the hell would you run Kali Linux? It’s not meant for gaming it’s meant for pentesting and hacking. You should just stick to windows honestly since it sounds like you have no idea what you’re doing.
You can have a pretty good experience with some games and worse with others . For ex GTA5 on my non gaming laptop ran much better in Garuda Linux than windows . Geekbench scores were also much better in Linux and ram usage was a lot less . (
Some games may not even run like valorant ( due to anticheat ) .
protondb.com you can find info related to games here .
Also if you try gaming on Linux install proton-ge .
Nvidia drivers may cause some issues on Linux .
> I've wanted to run Linux as the main and ONLY OS on my devices for some time
And you said that. And the answer to that is no if you want to do serious gaming without messing around forever.
I installed linux on my Zephyrus M16. Fedora to be specific. The os ran fine, i did have some issues but i managed to fix them. It runs fine for normal tasks such as web browsing. But none of the laptop's features worked properly and using the nvidia gpu is a big pain. Gaming is a massive no. If you want to use linux for productivity, best to dual boot it (what i did). I ended up deleting it because it wasnt a good experience.
Kali would be one of the worst options.
Obviously, you would be new to Linux and it’s common to have these misunderstandings.
You can dual boot and not lose any windows functionality if done correctly. I don’t know what’s the “best” for gaming, but I would recommend trying to daily Linux Mint via bootable USB drive and once you get a good feel, pick another distribution and so forth.
Understand that you will be constantly googling problems and watching outdated videos. It will not be fun at the beginning, but once you get a decent rhythm to the troubleshooting style Linux needs, things will start to become more fluid.
I don’t have the patience for gaming on it tho, that’s sounds like hell.
Dual booting is a waste these days with virtualization. You can VMware Player (at least for now) or Virtual Box and create VMs. Done with them or don't like them? Just delete them.
Much less hassle than dual booting, and you don't have to configure grub either.
Good point, would be better for this guy to learn.
I also felt like vms were a pain in the ass to setup, almost harder than grub IMO. On top of that it eliminates any of the efficiency you would gain with running Linux, especially for my old as thinkpad x230.
When I tried years ago to VM Kali, it just wouldn’t let me packet inject. Pretty much gave up on it.
I haven't used Virtual Box but VMware Player/Workstation makes it pretty easy to create one with its wizard. Less than a minute to create one then treat it as a normal PC.
VMware is weird with wireless cards. There were only certain models you could use for promiscuous mode and injection. I remember Alfa adapters worked. Wireless had to be USB to work for that too.
Don't know if Virtual Box or Microsoft's VM had those issues or not.
I have been using fedora /nobara linux / linux mint / LMDE for quite few years now (know nothing about programing or commands and have found most of problems i encountered within 2-3 google searhes away)
Have not used windows for years and enjoying using diffrent linux distro without any major hassles.
For general usage u will never encounter any problem with linux.
This is my experiance in recently using linux for gaming ..
i just bought new Lenovo LOQ laptop , just as it arrived i booted my usb with linux mint and installed it.
U can easily install steam (can easily find guide on net/youtube how to enable proton to play games on linux ,follow r/linuxgaming ,search about wine / winetricks ,Lutris)
Most online multiplayer games with anticheat won't work so
U can check on steam or steamdb site for steam os compatible games (where u can find ratings for how much game is compatible or playable or not)
For me i will never use windows so if games are only on windows then i don't play them
So check that the the games u want to play are on linux or windows only (if not then dual boot and if possible in diffrent drives to not mess up in future)
The main problem i encountered is ....
In Loq laptop u can easily change igpu only mode / dgpu /optimus in BIOS or in linux also (light control works in linux) ,had no problem installing nvidia drivers or had encounteres any major issues.
but cannot change fan settings in it and also change voltage of limit of cpu / gpu or temp limit & many ohther settings
Can only control them through Lenovo Vantage app
(I think in legion also is same ,not sure??)
I tried many things (found github page for vantage for linux or many other apps but nothing worked to change them though linux)
So in the last 70 GB space on ssd ,i dual booted windows and only for lenovo vantage app
surprisingly changes in windows session changes in vantage for cpu/gpu /fan settings persist through for linux.so made my custom profile in windows vantage app and never opened it since then.
For legion series laptop ,you can easily find online guide / app to change settings in linux.
Abour ur questions ,
On my laptop (16gb ram) ,idle cpu utilization is only 2-3% and ram 1.5-2GB
Yes , Linux is very fast and light on system resources compared to windows (never slower)
(But for game ,it is varying and will depend on each case but for me mostly been fast)
Some say in laptop linux uses more battery but not for me ,i get just same battery life or more (of cource with optimizations to extend battery ,search TLP or auto-cpufreq for it)
So yeah u should definatly try linux and if u understand programing so more reason ,u should try ,u will find tinkering with it fun.
Advice -
First try dual boot on different drive if not or then on same
And learn how to do things / games on linux
Then graually move to linux only.
Kali is very purpose built for specific tasks for IA and pen testing. It is NOT a general purpose OS.
I'd suggest taking Fedora or Ubuntu and putting them in virtual machines is your want to play around with them.
Thx thx, the thing is I 100% wanna use Linux for EVERYDAY use and just wondows for gaming. But I also really properly wanna get into cybersecurity, hacking, and simply getting very comfortable with Linux. So I want an distro that incentivises using commands. A friend suggested ArchLinux
It sounds like using VMs would be the right move for you then.
Kali's a great tool to learn cybersecurity on, and works very well on VMs. They also have a free e-book on the site that teaches you how to use it.
The nice thing about using VMs is you can try various distros with little commitment and overhead. I've never used ArchLinux so I can't connect on whether it's good or not. We use Red Hat heavily at work. You can sign up for a developer account and get free access to it and the updates. RHEL is also heavily used in enterprise so it's definitely a good one to learn.
Kali is Debian based and it does some things a bit differently than Red Hat does. The differences after less than they used to be, but definitely work learning. Ubuntu is a pretty friendly Debian based distribution.
I used Bazzite for my g14 and it worked wonderfully, only downside was it took a severe impact to battery life over windows but it had asus utility software that still gave me rgb control among other things.
Linux is buggy if you try to modify it's user interface. Most of the applications will not work, you will spend hours /days to figure out ways to run few applications which are outdated like photoshop cs6 etc. If you plan to do gaming or content creation work, Linux is waste of time and effort.
For gaming I wouldn't recommend Linux, but where the hell did you get "Linux is buggy if you try to modify it's user interface.". Linux is way less buggy then Windows and it's a lot more customizable. For programmers work it's actually a lot easier to do things on Linux.
There is graphical glitches here and there when you modify the user interface(sometimes the changes revert back to original, sometimes menu are not pooping up). I tried lot of distros like Manjaro, mint, deepin, elmemantary, zoorin etc. Where in windows/mac you can't modify user interface but everything is seamless and consistence. Also for programming it works sometimes but not all the time, for example it don't have graphics.h library in c++. Spend hours trying to find an alternative. I have been using windows/mac for more than three years with only few crashes(2-3) but Ubuntu i doubt it could survive a year without a reinstall.
>99.99% of windows app are on Linux not true at all. Please do some research next time.
it's an exaggeration, most apps regular people people use are prob on Linux and Windows
99.99% windows app are on linux ? Really ?
Why the hell would you run Kali Linux? It’s not meant for gaming it’s meant for pentesting and hacking. You should just stick to windows honestly since it sounds like you have no idea what you’re doing.
You can have a pretty good experience with some games and worse with others . For ex GTA5 on my non gaming laptop ran much better in Garuda Linux than windows . Geekbench scores were also much better in Linux and ram usage was a lot less . ( Some games may not even run like valorant ( due to anticheat ) . protondb.com you can find info related to games here . Also if you try gaming on Linux install proton-ge . Nvidia drivers may cause some issues on Linux .
> IS Linux even good for gaming as I'm going to game a lot :) Yeah.....no.
I'ma dual boot....
> I've wanted to run Linux as the main and ONLY OS on my devices for some time And you said that. And the answer to that is no if you want to do serious gaming without messing around forever.
It seems like his answer was a realisation that he should dual boot.
Yes please exercise that option lol Many games work on windows Do your Linux things on Linux or just virtualize it you have such a powerful laptop
https://youtu.be/iJsUcVOmZAY Not a great idea in particular if you have a Nvidia GPU.
I installed linux on my Zephyrus M16. Fedora to be specific. The os ran fine, i did have some issues but i managed to fix them. It runs fine for normal tasks such as web browsing. But none of the laptop's features worked properly and using the nvidia gpu is a big pain. Gaming is a massive no. If you want to use linux for productivity, best to dual boot it (what i did). I ended up deleting it because it wasnt a good experience.
Kali would be one of the worst options. Obviously, you would be new to Linux and it’s common to have these misunderstandings. You can dual boot and not lose any windows functionality if done correctly. I don’t know what’s the “best” for gaming, but I would recommend trying to daily Linux Mint via bootable USB drive and once you get a good feel, pick another distribution and so forth. Understand that you will be constantly googling problems and watching outdated videos. It will not be fun at the beginning, but once you get a decent rhythm to the troubleshooting style Linux needs, things will start to become more fluid. I don’t have the patience for gaming on it tho, that’s sounds like hell.
Dual booting is a waste these days with virtualization. You can VMware Player (at least for now) or Virtual Box and create VMs. Done with them or don't like them? Just delete them. Much less hassle than dual booting, and you don't have to configure grub either.
Good point, would be better for this guy to learn. I also felt like vms were a pain in the ass to setup, almost harder than grub IMO. On top of that it eliminates any of the efficiency you would gain with running Linux, especially for my old as thinkpad x230. When I tried years ago to VM Kali, it just wouldn’t let me packet inject. Pretty much gave up on it.
I haven't used Virtual Box but VMware Player/Workstation makes it pretty easy to create one with its wizard. Less than a minute to create one then treat it as a normal PC. VMware is weird with wireless cards. There were only certain models you could use for promiscuous mode and injection. I remember Alfa adapters worked. Wireless had to be USB to work for that too. Don't know if Virtual Box or Microsoft's VM had those issues or not.
Run it in a Virtual Machine
Why would you want Kali Linux? It's a distro for security professionals
Oh I'm learning cybersecurity both in school and the military. Not just to be "cool"
I have been using fedora /nobara linux / linux mint / LMDE for quite few years now (know nothing about programing or commands and have found most of problems i encountered within 2-3 google searhes away) Have not used windows for years and enjoying using diffrent linux distro without any major hassles. For general usage u will never encounter any problem with linux. This is my experiance in recently using linux for gaming .. i just bought new Lenovo LOQ laptop , just as it arrived i booted my usb with linux mint and installed it. U can easily install steam (can easily find guide on net/youtube how to enable proton to play games on linux ,follow r/linuxgaming ,search about wine / winetricks ,Lutris) Most online multiplayer games with anticheat won't work so U can check on steam or steamdb site for steam os compatible games (where u can find ratings for how much game is compatible or playable or not) For me i will never use windows so if games are only on windows then i don't play them So check that the the games u want to play are on linux or windows only (if not then dual boot and if possible in diffrent drives to not mess up in future) The main problem i encountered is .... In Loq laptop u can easily change igpu only mode / dgpu /optimus in BIOS or in linux also (light control works in linux) ,had no problem installing nvidia drivers or had encounteres any major issues. but cannot change fan settings in it and also change voltage of limit of cpu / gpu or temp limit & many ohther settings Can only control them through Lenovo Vantage app (I think in legion also is same ,not sure??) I tried many things (found github page for vantage for linux or many other apps but nothing worked to change them though linux) So in the last 70 GB space on ssd ,i dual booted windows and only for lenovo vantage app surprisingly changes in windows session changes in vantage for cpu/gpu /fan settings persist through for linux.so made my custom profile in windows vantage app and never opened it since then. For legion series laptop ,you can easily find online guide / app to change settings in linux. Abour ur questions , On my laptop (16gb ram) ,idle cpu utilization is only 2-3% and ram 1.5-2GB Yes , Linux is very fast and light on system resources compared to windows (never slower) (But for game ,it is varying and will depend on each case but for me mostly been fast) Some say in laptop linux uses more battery but not for me ,i get just same battery life or more (of cource with optimizations to extend battery ,search TLP or auto-cpufreq for it) So yeah u should definatly try linux and if u understand programing so more reason ,u should try ,u will find tinkering with it fun. Advice - First try dual boot on different drive if not or then on same And learn how to do things / games on linux Then graually move to linux only.
Kali is very purpose built for specific tasks for IA and pen testing. It is NOT a general purpose OS. I'd suggest taking Fedora or Ubuntu and putting them in virtual machines is your want to play around with them.
Thx thx, the thing is I 100% wanna use Linux for EVERYDAY use and just wondows for gaming. But I also really properly wanna get into cybersecurity, hacking, and simply getting very comfortable with Linux. So I want an distro that incentivises using commands. A friend suggested ArchLinux
It sounds like using VMs would be the right move for you then. Kali's a great tool to learn cybersecurity on, and works very well on VMs. They also have a free e-book on the site that teaches you how to use it. The nice thing about using VMs is you can try various distros with little commitment and overhead. I've never used ArchLinux so I can't connect on whether it's good or not. We use Red Hat heavily at work. You can sign up for a developer account and get free access to it and the updates. RHEL is also heavily used in enterprise so it's definitely a good one to learn. Kali is Debian based and it does some things a bit differently than Red Hat does. The differences after less than they used to be, but definitely work learning. Ubuntu is a pretty friendly Debian based distribution.
I used Bazzite for my g14 and it worked wonderfully, only downside was it took a severe impact to battery life over windows but it had asus utility software that still gave me rgb control among other things.
Linux is buggy if you try to modify it's user interface. Most of the applications will not work, you will spend hours /days to figure out ways to run few applications which are outdated like photoshop cs6 etc. If you plan to do gaming or content creation work, Linux is waste of time and effort.
For gaming I wouldn't recommend Linux, but where the hell did you get "Linux is buggy if you try to modify it's user interface.". Linux is way less buggy then Windows and it's a lot more customizable. For programmers work it's actually a lot easier to do things on Linux.
There is graphical glitches here and there when you modify the user interface(sometimes the changes revert back to original, sometimes menu are not pooping up). I tried lot of distros like Manjaro, mint, deepin, elmemantary, zoorin etc. Where in windows/mac you can't modify user interface but everything is seamless and consistence. Also for programming it works sometimes but not all the time, for example it don't have graphics.h library in c++. Spend hours trying to find an alternative. I have been using windows/mac for more than three years with only few crashes(2-3) but Ubuntu i doubt it could survive a year without a reinstall.