A Quick Look At Parrot OS Home Edition

Today, I'm taking a quick look at the latest release of Parrot OS, which is a Debian-based Linux distro with two edtions--a security focused edition and a home edition. I will be looking at the home edition...
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[@ParrotSecurity]

we're based on Debian stable, but we always do some updates ourselves to have the distribution stable but also up-to-date ...and yes, the glitch is on purpose 🦜 Thank you for the video!

[@DistroTube]

Thanks! And awesome work on this distro! :D

[@drakemallard6100]

As Parrot OS use btrfs, does it give the Subvolumes for timeshift snapshots / grub-btrfs or Snapper by default?

[@knife1406]

is your website down? I wanted to download the iso but I can't connect to parrotsec

[@RedSntDK]

@@knife1406 If you have DHT enabled in your client you can get it using this hash: 2df56b4265dea9600ba34209ccec80e6ba36b105

[@DistroTube]

@@knife1406 ​ @knife1406 Here is a link to the torrent for Parrot 6.1 Home: download.parrot.sh/parrot/iso/6.1/Parrot-home-6.1_amd64.iso.torrent And here is the torrent for Parrot 6.1 Security: download.parrot.sh/parrot/iso/6.1/Parrot-security-6.1_amd64.iso.torrent

[@samconnelly7630]

I don't use Parrot OS, but I use one of their macaw wallpapers. EDIT: The reason I use the macaw wallpaper is because I have a macaw.

[@palinurosec9154]

best choice ever

[@kevingary7018]

I have distro hopped for many years, and have enjoyed many Debian based GNU/Linux operating systems for my home desktop. I had a revelation, and decided to use a community based only distribution. So, I installed the real deal. Debian 12 is now on my desktop. I do not believe I will ever feel the need to "hop" again.

[@MasterQuestMaster]

The glitch effect was 100% intentional, at least it looked that way to me.

[@sqlexp]

Until you have seizures.

[@test-rj2vl]

It show how well that artist did his/her job. I would also time it with zoom in and out so that it would leave the impression that your monitor is cycling through display resolutions. And I would end that video with screenshot of text mode where X11 server is complaining that it can't start up due to configuration error or maybe randomly choose to end it with screenshot of BSOD if date is 1st april.

[@AlthafMuhammad2006]

Parrot OS is not based on any testing repo. It is based on Debian stable ( bookworm ). But they use their own repo for some packages

[@rtheben]

thanks for the heads-up

[@the1trancedemon]

1:30 seems like a cool glitch effect.

[@russellwaterhouse502]

Parrot OS was the first Linux distro I ever installed. Loved it back then, and I’m glad to see how awesome it looks now. Might be what I choose next distro hop.

[@marsdrums6298]

That Glitch effect has been in Parrot for a while. I remember seeing it for the first time. I was concerned as well. But yeah, pretty cool little effect especially for an OS such as this one.

[@BWGPEI]

Was looking for a different distro to try, and this interests me. So Thank You!

[@mwolfer1]

The glitch effect is intentional, gives you a little bit of a 'Matrix' or 'Terminator' vibe. 🙂

[@zenmaster24]

for those who want to know the difference between Parrot Home and Parrot Security editions: Parrot Home Edition and Parrot Security Edition are identical, and the only difference between them is the set of software that comes pre-installed. Parrot OS Home Edition comes with no security tools, while Parrot OS Security Edition comes with all the hacking and pentest tools pre-installed.

[@gamerscodex5454]

I love Debian as my desktop distro and never even considered using Parrot's Home version, cool review!

[@rdsii64]

I am a recent windows refugee. I have been running Debian 12.6 on my HP probook for a little over a week now. Learning Linux has a learning curve for sure but I'm taking it day by day. Once I'm comfortable in the deep end of the pool, I may try another distro just because. A rolling release distro based on Debian sounds interesting for another time. For now, I will forgo the trip down the rabbit hole until I learn a little more.

[@MrFl0rp]

/g/uys, its the bird episode!

[@esra_erimez]

I've been using Ubuntu based Linux all of my life. I've been thinking about moving to Debian recently, this may be just what I'm looking for.

[@RedSntDK]

Ubuntu was originally Debian based, so probably not that big of a leap.

[@palinurosec9154]

parrot provides all the good parts of debian by solving its usability issues

[@dsd-y1y]

Anonsurf routes all your traffic thourgh tor so its very nicely done in parrot. those button your clicked just started and stopped the tor routing and the refresh give you new node exit

[@Amondinium]

Nice ! Going to test it tomorrow too, ty !

[@SmashGuru007]

Glitch effect is intentional. Reminiscent of [oldschool] hacker vibes. It’s used quite often in the culture.

[@kevn-]

I disagree. Debian is Debian done right.

[@JohnCrawford1979]

I want to like bookworm, but it just doesn't work well for me.

[@_sneer_]

I have tried it many times since Linux kernel 2.2 and it never worked well for me. Devuan is Debian done right for me. Parrot looks good too.

[@JohnCrawford1979]

@@_sneer_ - Mageia is one I'd like to try again, but I'm waiting to try out version 10. Considering how their releases go, it could be out as soon as Aug., or as late as Nov.

[@tostadorafuriosa69]

i would like debian testing but i cant make it work

[@brianconnery2801]

THIS

[@UltraZelda64]

I strongly disagree with merging Mate's two panels into one. I absolutely hate when distros do that and have a single crappy application menu. And I say crappy, because the ones usually used in Mate and Xfce to serve this purpose suck. Unfortunately, half of the Xfce and Mate implementations I come across are screwed up in this way, trying to make them more Windows-like. It's nice to come across one that hasn't been butchered. I personally prefer that a distro makes minimal changes to the desktop environment aside from maybe the desktop background and the little icon for the Kicker/"Start" menu, and present the desktop as its developers intended. From there you're free to consolidate the panels and tweak your own desktop however you want.

[@palinurosec9154]

in the future we would like to migrate to kde, because unfortunately there aren't many mature desktop environments still under active development mate and xfce are old, dead and have always lacked a vision, but have been a good lightweight alternative to the gnome madness so far

[@fredmckinney8933]

I prefer having a single panel at the bottom. Besides, that, at least in theory, helps make those leaving Windows for Linux feel more at home. And that's how I do it on Xfce on my desktop box and in Openbox on my laptop. And that, in fact is how I've done it in a family-friendly web-filtered distro I've created called F3OS (the Free Family-Friendly Operating System). But you are, of course, free to rearrange it to your personal tastes -- there's no need for you to be hateful toward those of us who prefer a single panel.

[@svd348]

@@palinurosec9154 Dead being no longer supported? Or not filling out new features?

[@Nucksen]

@@palinurosec9154 If you switch to kde, I would immediately start to use parrot

[@palinurosec9154]

@@svd348 new features have not been implemented since ages, memory holes still occur from time to time, some components are poorly made (like the inconsistent icon sizes on the panel widgets) and the only work being done on the mate project is making sure it works on newer versions of the supported distros

[@olafgusten2671]

didn't know they had a home edition, time to give it a try :)

[@marsdrums6298]

Also, Autohiding the taskbar sort of helps get rid of the double taskbar theme so they probably won't be getting rid of that any time soon. I agree... It's kind of pointless to have 2 of them but autohiding one, makes sense.

[@bman4737]

I used the Parrot OS Home edition for a few months. I thought very highly of it until I downloaded a fatal software update about 5 months ago. Stability is important for me! They released an untested update! I now use MX Linux, but I have noticed squirrely software updates from them as well.

[@ithelightr3020]

I have a strategy with updates - a little patience goes a long way

[@cybernit3]

If anyone has recent hardware you can't use this if the Linux Kernel is 6.1 version you will need like 6.3 or higher; if for example you have a 7800x3d and 7800xt graphics card. Just thought to let others know so you don't waste your time installing on a new machine.

[@elitestarquake3597]

Those are some tasty wallpapers!

[@pdacore]

Whenever I set up Mate, I use the layout mm manager and switch it to Redmond so that I get a single bar. It's more, as its name suggests, more Windows like.

[@AlexHerlan]

Glitching effect durring load is intentional stylistic choice. Because of its security focused roots it doesnt phone out to do any geo locating

[@The1RandomFool]

It's rather odd that a distro focused on privacy is shipping with Firefox. From what I've heard, Mozilla has gone anti-privacy.

[@DxBlack]

Yeah, well, no one wants to use Brave as their default because Chromium-based 🙄 and everything else is based on the engine FF uses anyway.

[@DominikZogg]

I got my window decoration on the left as well (currently with gnome 46). I believe its best for languages been written from left to right.

[@RealShadowreaper]

Well I'm stealing that splash screen for my system.

[@JohnCrawford1979]

Calamares is OK, though I wish more distros gave options in the install for a variety of desktops/windows managers. Arch distros like ArcoLinux do this well, but some of the apps I'd like to use don't always work as well as I'd like. For some reason, Fedora distros have been the better distros for the type of apps I use. Debian distros are a close second, but Xorg displays are showing their age/limitations. Plasma is hit and miss, with Wayland being the best and most optimal for my laptop, especially with Hyprland.

[@palinurosec9154]

the installer installs whatever is shipped with the iso file, i think the netinstallers are what you are interested in. they install a base system for you and then allow you to choose what to add on top of it

[@JohnCrawford1979]

@@palinurosec9154 - True, but it also depends on what the distro gives for choices. Not sure if Fedora still has it, but they did have Hyprland in their repository, making it relatively easy to add on after installation. It's not as optimal as having the option during install, but at least it's an option. Either that, or have a choice of ISOs pre-built with the desktop/window managers to choose from. But, I get it. Some distros prefer to only develop on their flagship, with setting they prefer, or consider most optimal to them. Plus, there are lots of distros to choose from that at least one might work out for you. Or, you can build your own.That's what makes Linux great, having the options and freedom to find out what works best for you.

[@kristofor1221]

Had no idea that parrot had home edition and cool design on mate desktop

[@scottmorgan5212]

The glitch is real DT!

[@jasonlloyd4156]

its "mate" like "hate" not "mate" like "latte"

[@stevet7522]

I dunno... LMDE is a pretty good implementation of Debian for the desktop.

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

I really love Linux mint's mate menu, it's the best menu on any desktop. Without it I really don't like mate, the default mate menus are worthless to me now

[@Jerrec]

Parrot OS gut UI issues in the icons but in gerneral it is nice.

[@audioengineering4613]

thanks for your review I shall be using Parrot OS I have used windows Since MS-Dos bye bye windows.

[@n0b0dy_c4res]

I might give this a go. I dl the pentester version last time and I only wanted a basic desktop. Those toolbar would defo have to go though.

[@alexeiz]

Hey DT, I think I figured out what your super secure password is. It's "dt".

[@kakhabersanikidze9410]

Anon surf is gate to Tor

[@AverageNeovimEnjoyer]

Looks cool

[@СрђанПавловић]

Can you tell me which exactly version of Pycharm Community Edition is available to install in repos on Parrot home? I am interested in how up to date it is compared to actual new version.

[@minigpracing3068]

I have a question... With the low price of the many low power physical computers, why does everyone always use a VM? The majority of us are going to try and install this on physical hardware, so shouldn't reviewers also showcase this on real hardware?

[@wewantthefunk73]

I think it's for screen recording

[@minigpracing3068]

@@wewantthefunk73 I have no problem passing the vga/displayport/HDMI through a converter and a $15 usb capture device or my more expensive capture device. I use these to make install/setup/operation guides for myself on things I may only need to fool with every 3-5 years like setting up XCP-NG from scratch. When you make your living do this type of stuff, these are the tools to do the job and you buy them. Look at Haiku, does it really work on real hardware? I gave up on it a long time ago because I wanted it on real hardware and never succeeded on any hardware I owned, but it ran great in a VM. ReactOS being another I stopped fooling with for the same reason.

[@thomasbattle969]

Parrot is dope

[@monisrajput8056]

This os damn smooth

[@RakibHasan-hs1me]

Yes idiots exist claiming kali & Parrot should be as daily driver. I tried telling them it was lots of open ports , security holes and should be used as live version only but it went over their heads.

[@jayarmstrong]

Would be more interesting to hear about what makes a distro unique rather than see the live installer and default apps 👍

[@Rood67]

I watched the whole video, liked it because you do a really good job on your content. However, I have zero use for this type of distro; particularly yet another one based on Debian.

[@Tala2n]

How better it is compared to MX Linux or Mint ?

[@ElTelBaby]

@ 12:05 ? Y don't U get an option 2 install either Libre Office or OpenOffice on installation & NOT forced in2 Libre Office;... then only 2 remove Libre it if U R used 2 OpenOffice...

[@minigpracing3068]

Anyone know how big the WSL image is after install? I may try this on WSL since it is available, even though not officially supported.

[@TheLjohnfoxx]

Libre Office looks like it runs on wine, here.

[@VoltronLion]

if only we had a video that shows us how to replace ubuntu 20.04 with parrot os home edition..... but sadly there are none

[@swagmuffin9000]

I've always hated two panels and it's the first thing to go

[@-_ch40s_]

You don't need the Flavor-Distros anymore. Even with Debian 12.....

[@ronaldronald8819]

Microsoft is waging a major lobbying effort to prevent US and international governments from choosing open source software solutions, especially Linux. Hi DT, I am curious what you think. I had to practice some anger management after reading. :-)

[@NicolayGiraldo]

This distribution looks like Ubuntu 10.04, it should at least run fast...

[@furiousfellow1583]

although it has nvim installed, it has an old version, I've rather not have it installed since I have to remove and build from source to get a newer version (as on any debian system)

[@pacbreezy310]

11:26 I don't wanna kill anything 11:48 Ima go ahead and kill that...

[@ithelightr3020]

Lmao - don't we all tho?

[@jmacdono]

So, a security-conscious Linux distro is using a desktop environment that has no support for Wayland? Seems odd.

[@themroc8231]

They have a KDE version.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

So you think a newer graphics server still in heavy development is more secure than "tried and tested" Xorg then? Explain the logic... ...and please don't give me cr*p about "bloated Xorg code". When someone can show me Wayland running on an IBM Thinkpad T22 from 2002 with a Pentium III CPU and 512MB RAM (which Xorg runs happily on), you can maybe then start talking about bloated code. Until then, shut up about it.

[@jmz8086]

I thought Parrot OS was based on Manjaro for some reason... Lol guess I'm out of the loop XD

[@Denvercoder]

I cannot get the damn WiFi working. I’ve literally tried EVERYTHING. I have a brand new Lenovo laptop and I can run Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, Mint, EndeavourOS, Kali, but for some reason Parrot just refuses to use my WiFi adapter. It’s an integrated Intel WiFi adapter. 🤷‍♂️

[@jimmyrichards5595]

This is based upon Debian Stable, which means it is fairly old. You get much ‘newer’ firmware and drivers when you install Fedora or Arch, for your ‘new’ Lenovo laptop WiFi chip. EDIT: Sorry, my bad. I thought I saw that it’s based upon Debian Stable. But if this is based on Debian Testing as Derek said at the end of the video, then I’m not too sure what to think. Other than, what’s in Debian Testing still might be older than what’s in Fedora or Arch.

[@palinurosec9154]

@@jimmyrichards5595 parrot is based on debian stable, but backports a huge pile of software, especially drivers and the kernel. the video itself shows the latest linux 6.9 kernel released few days ago, while debian stable still ships 6.1 or something. using parrot means having a stable system, but not at the price of staying behind, at least on the most important things if the wifi doesn't work on a specific laptop, especially a recent model, then there is nothing wrong with parrot, debian or any other linux distro that won't work by default. but it is a faulth of the maufacturer that took the choice to include an incompatible wireless chipset and not release a driver for linux the best you can do is to search online for someone working on a reverse engineered driver for that model and offer them a coffee to support their work, and a driver will magically appear in few weeks or months, and be sure that, once notified, we will rush to include it by default into parrot

[@mal1k_me]

​@@jimmyrichards5595 You're right. It's based on Debian Stable

[@Bonez0r]

​@@jimmyrichards5595 It is based on Debian stable, see the pinned comment that's from the devs. _"we're based on Debian stable, but we always do some updates ourselves to have the distribution stable but also up-to-date"_

[@totallybonkers76]

"Super secure password" LOL 🙂

[@igormicovic]

Honestly, parrot looks beautiful, but on my thinkpad t495, 16gb of ram, 512gb ssd and ryzen 5 it is incredibly slow, not even youtube is working properly. It is either bad or too heavy for my machine. Whatever the reason, I am very disappointed.

[@car-soap]

2 application menus?!

[@palinurosec9154]

the top one is the old gnome menu that supports nested hierarchical submenus which is important for the pentesting nature of the distro, but it doesn't support searching the bottom one is a messy attempt by the mate project to provide a more modern menu, it supports search, favorites etc, but it doesn't support nested application categories unfortunately the best parrot can do is to take what the open source world has developed so far and put it together for the users, that's why a future switch to kde has always been a hot topic among the project devs

[@car-soap]

@@palinurosec9154 Thanks for the information, I believe that they should switch to Kde or something as fast as possible because this gives a very bad image of their os and linux in general to the world.

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

Do you work at parrot security ?​@@palinurosec9154

[@all_the_moga]

Kinda disconcerting with the glitchy splashscreen

[@palinurosec9154]

does a cool boot screen really look that bad on a pentesting distro?

[@all_the_moga]

@@palinurosec9154 All I'm saying is that if I knew it was on purpose, I'd be totally down with it. But Distro-hoppin' I'd be warry.

[@SailAway33]

The one issue I have is even when you convert Debian 12 to Parrot through the converter. It reports as squeeze and after that if you try to add package repos they say that that Debian is no longer supported. Such as docker and others. Though I love 🦜 OS otherwise. The one up over kali is it has a gui package manager out of the box.

[@Denvercoder]

JFC “Caja” means box in Spanish. It’s pronounced “Ka Ha”

[@sale666]

Yesterday attempted: ubuntu, debian, mint … took me 9 hours than i gave up. Problems installing as shows no signal because its an old graphic card gtx 670. Somehow managed to install ubuntu with safe graphics mode than could not install drivers because they are old asking me to kill X .. well ok.. found online ctrl alt f1.. yeh thats wrong now its f3 and still it did not work when stopping gdm… just gave up installed windows and have a usable system in 20min… linux is great if you have no life and can be 2 weeks infront of the pc doing repairs from fresh install..

[@jmacdono]

I hate the mismatched sized icons up in the top tray. Why is the volume icon twice the size of the network icon? Just very unpolished. Both Mate and Xfce are like this. If they had this distro available with a GNOME from this century, I'd probably try it out...

[@palinurosec9154]

gnome has other severe issues, kde would probably be a better alternative

[@mushroomcrepes]

programmer design

[@scottonanski4173]

I'm getting a distro headache.

[@lm4278]

Does this come innplasma?

[@UltraZelda64]

Has anyone managed to crack your strong and complicated, super-secure password yet?

[@RedSntDK]

Funny how he makes a deal of not using auto-login with a password that secure 😂

[@dolbrechts1980]

I guess dt 😂

[@diver2048]

Or "td", maybe)

[@norbydroid3430]

For me, I cannot stand usin Linux and only use it when I must. I find linux DEs to be extremely disgusting and sickning. Seriously, how much imagination is put into the look? Lets compare that to old XP themes, especially the Royal theme for XP Home/Pro, or main theme for XP Media center. That was a great theme with a blue and green that went perfectly together, taskbar and windows that were not flat lookin, but had a round look. Don't get me started on the dark mode. For those wonderin what I use daily, it is FreeDOS or XP. Pad for internet except if I need downloads.

[@gordonfreimann]

still 1080p? seriously

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

4K is a gimmick for people with too much disposable income - unless you're projecting images onto the side of a building or on the underside of a dome over your head. Personally, my eyes have never told my brain "we need more pixels on screen in order to maintain your attention span". 4K is for millennials looking for any excuse to not pay attention to something they should be learning from.

[@MW-em5uk]

Visual Studio Code? Talk about telemetry. That system must be a leaky bucket. No thanks.

[@ErdrickHero]

Arch is Debian done right. Seriously, nothing ever works on Debian.

[@laughingvampire7555]

there is no such thing as as debian done right

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

🧀

[@PauloConstantino167]

dt channel is dead. nobody is watching anymore because this guy has no idea how to maintain a channel.

[@SteavenGamerYT1]

first

[@gh0stzk-dotfiles]

Debian is for grandpas.

[@dez0rted291]

what's the point of reviews for all these distributions? they're no different at all the title of those videos must be “yet another wallpaper review of x distro”

[@samnwakefield2032]

All these guys run straight to virtual machines trying to test a distro....IS NOT BARE METAL...it wont be the same..Geez

[@michgingras]

same linus kernel, same inits, same desktop, same softwares, same same same .... there is no point in this

[@palinurosec9154]

what do you mean?

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

But ubuntu and fedora has newer packages. That's a BIG difference. Having same kernel, init, desktop environment and softwares doesn't matter.

[@palinurosec9154]

@@rishirajsaikia1323 that's why a lot of software gets backported by the team instead of waiting for a new debian release

[@lencumbow]

Relative newbie here. Parrot is my daily driver. Because it's a rolling release, I'm working toward a cohesive btrfs snapshot strategy for my /[root] partition - as well as an rsnapshot strategy (using NFS and external drives) for my /home partition. Any videos planned for rnapshot? It's pretty slick.

[@palinurosec9154]

parrot is not rolling release, it just gets many backport updates to not let the most important programs age

[@palinurosec9154]

snapshots are not backups, and viceversa, but both are useful for your disaster recovery plan i suggest you to install timeshift and setup automatic snapshotting at every system reboot, and automatically delete old snapshots (keep the past 2 or 3 snapshots only) and then have a remote server where to periodically push your stuff i don't personally like NFS, and what i do instead is to simply leave ssh open and use rsync over ssh to push my changes to a remote server (with its own shapshots enabled). i also use rclone to do encrypted backups on some s3 buckets, and such tools can also be used to incrementally sync stuff things offline to a phisically attached backup drive

[@lencumbow]

@@palinurosec9154 My mistake about the rolling release. Understood now.

[@lencumbow]

@@palinurosec9154 btrfs snapshots are not backups. But, rsnapshot backups are rsync based, and are true backups. I will look at timeshift. Thank you. I'm playing with SSH now. Will probably flesh that out vs. NFS.