Kali/Annoyances

List of Annoyances

A list of annoyances in Kali, by topic, and hopefully a fix for each annoyance.

Kali Installs X on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi image for Kali installs all manner of irrelevant, unnecessary, bloated crap. After doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, now I have a bunch of Apache services installed and running? I have a desktop X server running? Are you kidding me?? This is a headless server. WTF is it installing X by default for?

Fix:

$ apt-get remove -y apache2 xfce4 xfwm4
$ apt-get -y autoremove

Of course, the REAL fix is to create your own Kali ARM image. See Kali/Custom ARM Image.

Vim Takes Forever To Open

Not sure if this is a problem with vimrc or what, but vim takes a full 4-5 seconds to open, every damn time. How is this even possible? How can you possibly bloat such a lightweight and fast piece of software? Did I somehow install emacs in my sleep and run alias vim='emacs'?

Network manager

On Kali, specifically the desktop, NetworkManager automatically remembers and connects to wireless networks. What is this dumb, I can't, what idiot, stupid, dumb decision, I don't even know. Whoever decided to turn that one on should go jump off a bridge.

Solution: disable this obnoxious piece of crap.

$ systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
$ systemctl disable NetworkManager.service 

Hidden Networks

No way to join a hidden network without turning off network manager and resorting to linux wifi command line wpa supplicant crap.