I have Parrot home 4.2.2 64 bit running on an 7 year old netbook with an Intel Atom N455 dual core CPU @1.66Ghz and 2GB DDR3 1066Mhz RAM. At idle it barely take 3% CPU. I use it mainly as my music and Podcast machine (I have Clementine installed for that) but it runs solid as a rock. I've gotten over 3 MB/s continuous download speed when downloading torrents with it. Not bad for a little netbook. Parrot home really shines when booting it up from a USB 3.0 flash drive on my Intel i7 quad core. It boots so fast!

I really like that the adblocker is pre-installed.

@MiraSmit

4 жыл бұрын

And if there is a site you want to support, you can add it under exceptions.

Installed the home edition on a USB and made it persistent, love it!

Been following this distro for a while, nice review.

@DistroTube

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mr. Whole.

Nice look at Parrot home. Thanks DT.

Redshift removes blue color, good for eyes and for sleep. Researches says !

@Sithhy

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it surely makes it less painful to look at the screen, especially at night or when you're in a dark room

I have been running Parrot on one of my laptops for several months now. I like it, it's stable, and their implementation of the Mate DE is done very well. I'm glad to see that you did a first look. Good job letting people know about Parrot OS and providing a good, detailed overview. BTW, I agree about the the exploding parrot wallpaper. That' my favorite, too.

@DistroTube

5 жыл бұрын

Wallpapers are everything! :D

@barbarah-p8661

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are. :)

Never heard of this distro. Very nice review Derek!!

This is actually the second time watching this review. Only because i finally switched from Linux Mint to Parrot. Its nice to watch a review that is very indepth and you dont really leave anything out. Plus you arn't reading off script which is nice. Good job as always! Thank you

I see you decided to take a look at the Home edition of Parrot OS too, DT :D Great review as always.

Amazing video as always

You're doing great work here on KZread

@DistroTube

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mr_Beezlebub!

Great review bro, that's an interesting distro :)

@DistroTube

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir.

@presentarmsonlinux

5 жыл бұрын

DistroTube you are very welcome sir

Great take on the distro! From my research, one of the selling points of this distro is that it sandboxes vulnerable apps (via firejail) keeping them isolated from the main system - kinda Qube-esque but not as paranoid to run multiple VMs for compartmentalization.

Like it. Another distro where some thought has gone into customisation rather than just a collection of apps and a theme.

Dude, thank you for taking the time to explain what you're doing throughout the install process rather than playing dub step music

I like a security biased distro, I am a computer professional with training in security. Thanks for this video.

@DistroTube

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, jagardina.

Half a regular distro + still half a Parrot :) I did my own Redshift research a couple of times during several periods with me being the guinea pig of course. Never noticed any advantages. With and without it, I always started developing headaches after staring at my screen for 15 hours or more :D Might be different for other people, some of them swear by it. I'm not the cursing kind I guess :D Thumbs up for another nice review!

I've been running it on my desktop and laptop. After using it for about a week I decided to make it my permanent OS. Aside of the hacking features, it is perfect for just daily use. Since a great deal of shared libraries come preinstalled, most of anything I download from the repository works at first execution (without spending forever looking for missing libraries). It works great with gaming and other daily uses. They have a experimental version for the Raspberry Pi that I'll check out soon. Such an awesome OS with my favorite desktop environment.

parrot home its very cool for daily use,.. thanks for review

Cheers Mate!

love it DT i liked parrot security

@tubelarasa

5 жыл бұрын

You hacked your yt nick with P. Security?

@cthedosboss5113

5 жыл бұрын

ive messed with parrot and kali and no i didnt hack my youtube nickname with parrot lol thats if what u ment by it if not then tell me what u ment by it :)

@tubelarasa

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't take it too serious, you were right :) I tried Kali, Parrot, Tails and some Japanese distro (forgot the name), but never took the effort to get comfortable with 'm when I saw the enormous amount of little programs and possibilities. It's almost a profession in its own right, isn't it? Did quite a lot of hacking and cracking in 'the DOS days' however. Just for fun, nothing harmful.

@cthedosboss5113

5 жыл бұрын

i agree ,i did learn it bc i thought it was cool i wanted to learn it as well plus it was something to brag about lol , and no i didnt take it seriously i just didnt understand the abbreviation u used so i didnt want to give u a wrong response lol (that would of been funny ) my fav cracking and penetrating os is blackarch simple lightweight :)

@tubelarasa

5 жыл бұрын

Ah! Now I know what could possibly be misunderstood :D yeah, heard some nice things about BlackArch too. Interesting distro category but I'm not gonna dive into it. But go ahead of course, have fun and a little bragging is allowed :)

I like Parrot security, I am in that field and their tools are useful. I just use many of them within Mint. Now, if I wished I could just install something like this. But even then I don't need the full package, I don't look at hard drives as I get them, I just like the wiping features. But, If I did by far it would be fairly handy. I used to use a resource hacker on the Apple IIe, it was extremely handy on something like that to make the most out of the 64k you got or 128 with paging if you had the graphics memory expansion. But for most work the tools built in to Mint serves me just fine. I can even debug and sniff over serial and USB ports. But, this does seem like a really decent operating system. I am with DT over here, I love Gnome 2, I have never lost my love for it and since the option exists to use that layout, why not? The newer Mate menu is equally as nice, but I am nostalgic at heart.

It’s a great Debian based distribution with a lot of cool tools out of the box I wish they had KDE ... Great video

@Dhar01

5 жыл бұрын

They also had KDE home version ISO on their website. That's pretty cool too. Try it.

You have to hit the Escape button on your keyboard to get out of the VLC about page.

i downloaded the latest 4.3 parrot os after i flash then boot my loptop i pick live mode and press enter it says wait for 30seconds after it start again over and over im using acer aspire 4752g

Great video I'm currently debating wether to dual boot my old macbookpro with Mojave or eliminate mac altogether for parrot.

Seems to me that I didn't see a Firewall in the OS. Is it not needed?

Will miss the old logo, but pretty good redesign

I have a nice wallpaper I can link you whenever I wake up tomorrow, if I remember :)

@Nixima81

5 жыл бұрын

Found it DistroTube and all who likes abstract art: wallpaperswide.com/abstract_bird-wallpapers.html

@adamh5153

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nixima81 THat is pretty cool.

dt is actually a strong and complicated password, would would even guess that ur password is only 2 digits to begin with...

Imma check Parrot out for my dual core laptop with 2Gb of RAM.

11:55 i wish VIM was always this easy to close. Making it windowed really is a good idea.

@mikecantreed

5 жыл бұрын

:q closes vim... just need to be in visual mode

Hi! installing the parrot os or kali linux on a usb it is efficient as when installing that os on a hdd or ssd? thx

@blkprl969

5 жыл бұрын

catalin catalin if you do a full install to the usb, it’s basically a new computer. But keep in mind that usb has limited read/write capacity and will eventually run out of memory or fail. If you only have the iso file on the flash drive, and do not install, it will forget all your changes and downloads each time you reboot/shutdown/remove usb. If you’re looking to use parrot or kali for “hacking”, I would not install it on your main computer. It is best to use a live usb with or without persistence, or to load in a virtual machine.

Derek can you please review puppy linux

i think I'm gonna change from Ubuntu to parrot home .....they are similar in a way

Adam IDE 😀

Why the installation process fails every time at 90%. Tried fifty times to install it, but no luck, what im doing wrong for god sake?!

time to look at ReactOs im surprised you havn't done a video on it yet

@DistroTube

5 жыл бұрын

It's been under development for 20 years and is still considered "alpha" software. That might have something to do with why I haven't looked at it. ;)

LONG LIVE THE AD BLOCK

The background looks nice, but it would be cool if some of these distros would get more creative with their desktop functionality. It seems like it's always something that either functions like Windows or MacOS, or lies somewhere in the middle. I know the old saying of "don't reinvent the wheel," but damn, how many different flavors of vanilla do we need? Maybe someday I'll learn how to make my own just so to add to the variety.

You should look in the camera more often. It becomes kinda awkward when you finish of the whole video without looking at the camera.

@mattking6718

5 жыл бұрын

Woah

@yimoawanardo

5 жыл бұрын

Hardik Srivastava not gonna lie, sometimes it is creepy to have the Mona Lisa effect when someone looks directly to the camera. Perhaps that is just. me. I suppose others would prefer it tbough

@tubelarasa

5 жыл бұрын

+Yimo Awanardo lol!

@Randomizer92mx

5 жыл бұрын

I don't have a problem with that.

@fdsfjhjtjtea6497

5 жыл бұрын

90% didn't even notice

Hey Derek on vlc sub window just right click on top and click close

If you say "Mahtay" without the need for an accent mark and only one 'T', I think people should start saying "K'dee" and "X-face".

@blkprl969

5 жыл бұрын

Stop Using This Avatar “The name “MATE”, pronounced Ma-Tay, comes from yerba maté, a species of holly native to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are used to make infusions and a beverage called mate.” From the official MATE website. mate-desktop.org/

I wish more people would base something off arch...

@blkprl969

5 жыл бұрын

Hanro50 /\ (:

This review make me laugh The distro is made for privacy debugging and hacking and you review it like if it is a common normal desktop distro. For example obviously there should be an ad block many of them try to spot your geo location and identity or other stuff That's why... But anyway, I think this channel is going to be another distro hopping