See the below screenshot, where a Firefox ESR and mousepad editor are opened in Windows 11: Running Linux apps on Windows You can open the apps, like those native apps in windows. By now, you will be able to notice the apps and other software, installed under the “Kali Linux” folder in your start menu. When everything is finished, you can restart the Kali instance. It will again start the installation process. Once the package download is complete, it will ask for your language. Wait for some time to complete the installation. This will download and install quite a big number of packages. To access these features, open Kali Linux and Run the command below: sudo apt update Kali Linux offers a special package, called win-kex, which supports the GUI apps in Windows. This will download and install the necessary and available updates. You need to update your Kali system with the command: sudo apt update Setting Username and Password for Kali Linux It will show some installation progress and after that, you will be able to create your UNIX username and Password. Once done, open the Kali Linux application. So, you need to go to the Microsoft store and install Kali Linux as an application as shown in a previous screenshot. There is a version of Kali Linux available to install via Powershell, but that is not recommended. Go to the Microsoft store and install Windows Subsystem for Linux application. In Windows 11 or some of the latest builds of Windows 10, installing Kali Linux or any other Linux distribution is a straightforward process.
Install Kali on Windows 11 and Some Windows 10 Machines Please read our article on how to set up WSL 2 and install Linux distributions in Windows, for a quick overview of the requirements and initial setup. To install Kali Linux in Windows, you should be running either Windows 10 or Windows 11. This way, you get the command line version along with possible GUI tools, of these Linux distributions.
You can download these two distributions from Microsoft Store and install them like any other Windows 11/10 application. On March 2018, Microsoft announced the availability of Debian and Debian-based hacking distribution Kali Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux. But that has changed with Kali Linux being available in Windows Store directly. For some time, installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox was the easiest way to use this hacking distribution inside Windows.
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