Parrot vs Kali?
Also how bad of an idea it is to make either of those your base OS?

I don't really see how that would be a bad idea. They're basically forks of popular Linux distributions with a lot of pre-installed security related tools. So it's pretty much like making debian (for Kali) your main os: perfectly fine until you want to game.

@CptFox I'm too fucking done with windows so it's ok for now if I can't game
Parrot is also Debian based

@justasithlord Afaik, both Kali and Parrot would be decent choices. If you already know what tools are of interest to you, you might also just install any distribution you like and apt install the rest. (Or yum, or dnf, or pacman, or yaourt, whatever...)
I like Ubuntu because it has extensive support, but that's just my opinion. I wouldn't want to start a Linux distro debate, my notification tab couldn't handle it.

@CptFox haha alright, btw do you use Ubuntu on your laptop?

Don't use them as main OS.

https://docs.kali.org/introduction/...

@R01101111bert thanks, I did expect to do something stupid ✌️

@justasithlord I did during my previous internship. Now I have win7 on my work laptop (it's a pain to work with on embedded systems, but I don't really have a choice there, although I'll try to get the computer managers to let me use Ubuntu soon), win10 on my desktop (gaming) and MacOS on my personal laptop, which is also my main dev machine outside of work since, you know, Unix. I've also set up a raspi at work with Arch+openbox, but for now I really lack experience with it. I've found arch to be quite harder to deal with than Ubuntu, both because it comes in very bare and the community is more hardcore

I've customized my mac a lot, so it does feel a bit more linuxy than the average. Got totalspace for better workspaces, witch for better alt tab, changed the default terminal to iTerm with zsh and powerline fonts, and my two favorite things are brew and Retina Display Manager to allow arbitrary resolutions for the screen. I can't recommend the last one enough for any mac user.