I haven't understood the two sides to the argument. I haven't tried Kali but I understand that it comes with software that security testers find useful. My doubts are, 1. If ...
Most distros are snappy enough nowadays. I'm not sure about driver support, isn't that built into the kernel?
Does being independent mean that its not based on Debian or some other existing distro?
I don't know if this is helpful, but you may give it a try. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBp0Rb-ZJak
Are you meaning to say that you take pride in being useless to people? 😅
Is it possible to dress up executables as PDFs or images on Linux?
You can read and write but cannot delete or format?
So what's it got going for it, who should use it?
What did you try in gparted? Formatted the card?
Have you tried drag and drop from host to guest?
Is it the real thing?