The verdict
Hacker distros
Kali has it all if you want a pre-made networkhacking distribution. It has an impressive number K of editions to cover most installation scenarios, plus a slick-looking lightweight desktop and a huge set of built-in, well-categorised hacking tools. It also benefits from being the most popular hacking distro, so there are plenty of tutorials and many penetration-testing tool tutorials use Kali as a base. We suspect that the average Linux user could have Kali installed and be following a penetration tutorial within a morning if they already have some experience with networking tools.