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No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it and I guess my little experiment failed here, I never had a smooth experience with Debian before it always break itself when doing a system updates.

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Some actionnable suggestions :

  • Verify disk using smartmontools.
  • Verify memory using memcheck.
  • (Temporarily) disable unofficial apt repos, do apt update, purge then reinstall the affected packages.
  • If that didn't help or you need more help, you could go to kali forum to politely request help, with a precise description of the issue. Please refrain from ranting even if you're annoyed.

Keep in mind this is free software provided without warranty. No one ows you a stable experience nor support. People are giving this software away and volonteering time and resources to make this happen. If there's a bug and you need it fixed, please submit a bug report, ideally with a patch to fix it.