Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store (microsoft.com)

You can now download and install Kali Linux via the Windows Store. From a blog post on MSDN: Our community expressed great interest in bringing Kali Linux to WSL in response to a blog post on Kali Linux on WSL. We are happy to officially introduce Kali Linux on WSL.

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for those wondering what it is

[nimbius]

Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. Arguably, anyone who needed Kali linux would be intelligent enough to install it on its own workstation. cobbling a well supported and powerful standalone Linux distribution together with the haggard proprietary burro of Microsoft Windows serves no immediate purpose other than bragging rights. At best its a desperate plea from Redmond to get professionals to treat the windows store seriously. At worst, its the same chair-flinging all-hands-on-deck histrionics we've come to expect from a company thats typically 2-4 years too late to the party but inexplicably keeps hucking resources at their version of an already established technology until quietly shuffling it under the rug ten years later after multiple dismal quarterly performances that were floated along by x-box life support cash and the ever predictable licensing fees from major corporate customers.

Re:Who uses Kali Linux?

[ElizabethGreene]

Kali is very quiet. When you fire up Wireshark or TCPDump you don't have to go turn a bunch of things off to get to a noiseless trace.