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What is the best OS for ethical hacking?
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Works great on older hardware
7-10-year-old Dell laptops can run Unix or Unix-like OSes very well, where Windows would grind/drag/vomit.
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GNU GPL
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GNU/LInux
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GTK, Qt, wxWidgets
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Flexibility
GNU/Linux handles desktop sessions differently than Windows. Users may customize their own sessions; in fact, a single user may use different desktop environments for different login sessions.
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Choose any type of desktop environment (or none)
Most Linux distributions support a range of desktop environments, be it plain old X, a tiling window manager or a fully fledged mammoth desktop like GNOME or KDE.
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No telemetry, unlike Windows
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Lower chance of data loss
Linux has very few viruses. So there's almost no chance of getting infected by a virus and thus losing your data including your important programming files.
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Extremely fast
Can be made even faster by going GUI-free or using a lightweight window manager.
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Hardly ever crashes
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A wide variety of distributions available
With a lot of variety, one can use the distribution that fits the type of work best because of the many choices that are given, instead of just one.
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Follows the UNIX philosophy
The UNIX philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well'. Since Linux itself follows this philosophy then it's very easy to start creating scripts and programs.
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Familiarity with Linux is often required from a developer
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UNIX-like
Nice, developer-friendly environment.
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Most likely also your deployment target
Makes testing while developing easier. According to a September 2014 study by W3 Techs, *nix based servers are used on over 2/3 of websites.
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Package managers
You can install any library or package that you need (gcc, php, node) with just a couple of commands in the terminal.
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Most Linux distributions are free
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Large percentage of Linux users are developers
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Access to really powerful terminals
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Lots of development tools available
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Most software is open source
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