Kali Linux Desktop PC Initial Setup

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Lin­ux Desk­top

This is a short guide which cov­ers my set­up of Kali Lin­ux as desk­top en­vi­ron­ment. It doesn't cov­er the in­stal­la­tion process of Kali Lin­ux it­self. Cur­rent­ly Kali Lin­ux is dual-boot width Win­dows 10 and some­thing more Win­dows 10 is turned (al­so) to a QEMU/KVM guest op­er­at­ing sys­tem and can be ac­cessed from in­side Kali Lin­ux, more de­tails about this point are pro­vid­ed in the ar­ti­cle: QEMU/KVM on AMD Ryzen 9 Desk­top with Dual-boot and Passthrough.

Prepa­ra­tion

At this par­tic­u­lar sys­tem are in­stalled 1TB NVMe de­vice and 250GB SSD de­vice. Ini­tial­ly Win­dows 10 was oc­cu­pied the en­tire 1TB NVMe. I was able to shrink it and move it to the 250GB SSD by the fol­low­ing steps.

  • Boot in­to live Lin­ux im­age (Ubun­tu/Kali Lin­ux) from USB and use the GPart­ed tool to shrink the Win­dows 10 main par­ti­tion un­der 240 GB. With­in the na­tive disk man­age­ment it was not pos­si­ble to shrink the par­ti­tion un­der 300GB.
  • Boot in­to Win­dows 10 and re­pair the file sys­tem. With­in This PC ap­pli­ca­tion – Screen 1, right click on the shrieked sys­tem par­ti­tion an choose prop­er­ties 1, then from the sys­tem prop­er­ties di­a­logue choose the Tools tab 2 and click on the Check but­ton 3, af­ter that con­firm the er­ror check­ing di­a­logue 4. Re­pair­ing the file sys­tem from Win­dows is im­por­tant, oth­er­wise CloneZil­la may throw er­rors de­spite the sys­tem is ful­ly op­er­a­tional at first glance.
  • Then use CloneZil­la live im­age and clone the disk (1TB NVMe > 250GB SSD). You need to dis­able the disk size check with­in the ad­vanced op­tions.
  • When the Win­dows 10 in­stal­la­tion is cloned – op­tion­al­ly turn-off the sys­tem and dis­con­nect the dri­ve with the orig­i­nal in­stal­la­tion, – boot in to the new cloned in­stance, re­pair the file sys­tem once again. Af­ter that, right click on "This PC" and choice the Man­age op­tion from the con­text menu. Go to the disks sec­tion and ex­tend the sys­tem par­ti­tion to oc­cu­pied the free space. Then you may check for er­ror once again.
Screen 1. Windows 10 check for errors and repair the file system.
Screen 1. Win­dows 10 check for er­rors and re­pair the file sys­tem. Screen 1. Windows 10 check for errors and repair the file system.

In­stal­la­tion

How to in­stall Kali Lin­ux along­side Win­dows is well de­scribe in the fol­low­ing re­sources. In ad­di­tion, I would phys­i­cal­ly dis­con­nect the Win­dows' dri­ve when this is pos­si­ble.

Post In­stal­la­tion

En­able Blue­tooth

In Kali Lin­ux 2022 the Blue­tooth ser­vice is dis­abled by de­fault. In or­der to en­able it run thew fol­low­ing com­mand.

sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth.service

Add Win­dows 10 en­try in­to the Grub menu

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

# SZS: https://wiki.metalevel.tech/wiki/Kali_Linux_Desktop_PC_Initial_Setup
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

sudo update-grub

Ref­er­ences

In­stall the lat­est Nvidia Dri­ver

Here I'm go­ing to in­stall the Lat­est NVIDIA Dri­ver, rec­om­mend­ed for Quadro T600, which is not pre­sent­ed in the Kali's repos­i­to­ry. The first step is to down­load the lat­est dri­ver: NVIDIA Dri­ver Down­loads > Quadr/​​​RTX T600 > LIN­UX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DIS­PLAY DRI­VER.

Then Black­list the de­fault Nou­veau dri­ver: 

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

sudo update-initramfs -u

Af­ter that re­boot the sys­tem. If the log-in screen come back – don't log-in, but prob­a­bly there will be blank screen wit blink­ing cur­sor. In both cas­es, press Ctrl+Alt+F3, log-in to a TTY, and re­move any ex­ist­ing NVIDIA Dri­ver: 

sudo apt remove '*nvidia*'

And then in­stall the dri­ver. 

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01.run
sudo nvidia-xconfig

Fi­nal­ly re­boot the sys­tem once again.

Ref­er­ences

Gnome Ex­ten­sions

Don't up­date the ex­ten­sions de­liv­ered by Kali Lin­ux from the GNOME Shell Ex­ten­sions page! The pack­age gnome-brows­er-con­nec­tor is not yet avail­able to the Kali's repos­i­to­ry – that cause the mes­sage: Your na­tive host con­nec­tor do not sup­port fol­low­ing APIs: v6., – in the brows­er. Cur­rent­ly every­thing works de­spite the men­tioned mes­sage. In case there is a prob­lem, in­stead of adding new ex­ten­sions via the brows­er we can use gnome-shell-ex­ten­sion-man­ag­er. 

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

An­oth­er way is to down­load and in­stall the ex­ten­sions man­u­al­ly – ref­er­ence. 

gnome-extensions install -f <name of downloaded zip file>.zip

Al­so keep in mind there is a cou­ple of de­fault ex­ten­sions avail­able in the OS' repos­i­to­ry. 

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-[Press TAB]
#Out­put
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator             gnome-shell-extension-impatience
gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu                 gnome-shell-extension-kimpanel
gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar           gnome-shell-extension-manager
gnome-shell-extension-bluetooth-quick-connect  gnome-shell-extension-panel-osd
gnome-shell-extension-caffeine                 gnome-shell-extension-pixelsaver
gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock               gnome-shell-extension-prefs
gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel            gnome-shell-extension-proxyswitcher
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng         gnome-shell-extension-shortcuts
gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast           gnome-shell-extension-sound-device-chooser
gnome-shell-extension-freon                    gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor
gnome-shell-extension-gamemode                 gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant
gnome-shell-extension-gpaste                   gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus
gnome-shell-extension-hamster                  gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview
gnome-shell-extension-hard-disk-led            gnome-shell-extension-volume-mixer
gnome-shell-extension-hide-activities          gnome-shell-extension-weather

Notes about some ex­ten­sions:

De­ploy Se­goe UI Font

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrbvrz/segoe-ui-linux/master/install.sh)

Ad­di­tion­al Soft­ware In­stal­la­tion and Tweaks


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