Series · 4 parts

Moving to Linux

Picking the OS, understanding why the tooling favours it, then fixing the things that break first.

Systems

Feb 17, 2023 – Mar 04, 2023 · 8 min to read the lot

The parts, in order

Open source, stable, and built around the command line. What makes Linux a good place to develop.

There is no single best answer. It depends on your preferences, your languages, and the tools you work with.

Kali ships with MariaDB, and it conflicts with MySQL. Here is the sequence that finally worked for me.

Copying the keyring into trusted.gpg.d silences the warning. Scoping the key to the one repository that needs it is the fix apt actually wants.