@tomxcd I went to high school with the person who went on to write the 'kismet' wireless sniffer. I was a big Mac nerd at the time, and he showed me MkLinux. I thought it was cool, but I didn't have a new-enough Mac to use it, so I dumpster-dived myself a 486 and loaded Debian on it from a CD-ROM I bought from Ocean State Job Lot.

Been using Linux as my daily driver since Debian 2.1-ish, though most of my early Linux days, it was YDL or Gentoo on a PowerMac G3.