(03-09-2013, 09:43 AM)Lux Wrote: Embarrassingly I only started using Linux in 2008. Computer Science degree at the University of Liverpool, I think they used Red Hat Linux?

I didn't have it on my own computer until 2009 when I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a partition of my desktop and shortly after started playing with BackTrack on the side to fuel my infosec desires. I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 when that was out but decided I was prepared to try Arch mid 2010, it all worked fine but designing the desktop etc wasn't my thing so I decided to revert back to something a little simper - Debian.

I have been using Debian/BackTrack until recently when my Debian partition decided to fail so now I'm basically only using Kali Linux as my main Interest is in security and penetration testing. In before BackTrack/Kali hate too! ;)

There's no need for embarrassment regarding when you began using some software...
What matters is that you've embraced *nix systems in place of proprietary systems which may, or may not, have backdoors coded into the system(s.)