Kali vs. Black Arch vs. Parrot

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Summary

This is a draft about the differences of the three operating systems

Differences

User friendliness (for lay people)

Kernel Type

Stability

Installing

The installation is quite similar with all distributions, however some cause more problems than the others. Black Arch is the fastest, has the least setup to go through: basically you just choose the boot and you are good to go to log in with the default username and password. Afterwards you can create users and change these settings, but the setup itself does NOT require you to.
On the other hand, the ParrotOS takes a while to set up, going through all the setup steps. It might happen, that your setup (especially in a VM) will not work if you click some wrong setting. However, the complexity of the setup corresponds to the result, ParrotOS being really nice and user friendly, while getting a small window in Black Arch with no idea, how to actually use it since these are no buttons.
Kali Linux is also somewhat more complex to set up, but works more effortlessly. You can set up users and passwords right in the setup process, choose a desktop environment of your choice (Xfce, GNOME, KDE Plasma...)
The installation process has been thoroughly documented in the following links:

Packager

Pre-installed Tools

Used Hardware

VM Ware virtual Machines with each:

  • 4 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 100 GB HDD

Idly used Hardware of the OS

References