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The show emphasized many times that "she is learning to hack" to the point of ad nauseam. Nobody who has a clue would ever call it that. In reality, she was learning to use Linux.

Side note: Why is everyone using Kali Linux all the time? Does anyone (who isn't 14) really run that as a daily driver? They use it to surf the web and check their email. It makes no sense.

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> They use it to surf the web and check their email. It makes no sense.

There's a scene where we can see Elliot running CentOS on his personal laptop. Not that lends any realism (CentOS is more common on servers, not PCs) but it does show their awareness of Linux beyond Kali.

Maybe because it's easier to boot it everytime from USB wherever you are than to have an OS installed with information about you on it. Also, I guess they use it daily for hacking purposes and happen to check the mail on it.

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