I started with Kali in college, and my professor suggested that we don't try to tackle a ton of tools at once. Take kali, choose a purpose (for instance, my classmate decided he wanted to learn password cracking first) and then use the tools for that purpose to develop your skills with them, learn what you like and dislike, and keep tabs on what tools work for you for constant practice.
Having a hacker distro won't make you a hacker. It won't teach you how to use the tools it comes with, or what tools are even the most important out of the entire ball of them. Ignoring all the tools and starting small is honestly the best way to go about it, and at that point you are just as well off installing some form of linux and just picking up programs as you go
So now we are at the point where we consider people who can use tools hackers... (in fact, we have a lot of posts that at least
suggest it lately). That's not the case. Hacking is a mindset and always will be. It is
not about using tools or distros, it is about an urge for knowledge and the philosophy behind it. Most people don't get this at all, some just picked up the mantra of "Kali is bad for you" and repeat it without understanding why. So, read the damn stickies, get the general idea, and develop that mindset already. (Hint: it does not involve "I want to be able to crack a password", at least not in it's pure form).
Read what proxx wrote earlier and close this topic full of corrupting, moronic bullshit rearing it's ugly head again.
@b00ms1ang: If you think you are accused of something you are not guilty of, carry on, I just picked up your post to illustrate a point.
