" I modded the heck out of it though to fit my style so it can be acceptable for everyday use "
Hope you had a good time doing that and learned things in the process. Personally I reckon most hacking needs consist of
Some kind of web and javascript debugger.
http://getfirebug.com/ gets installed just moments after adblock, noscript, requestpolicy and greasemonkey around here.
Maybe a WEP cracker, probably not so useful in 2015 though. I will probably still grab a copy of kismet though.
A packet scanner.
https://www.wireshark.org/ assuming we are not all using the nice options for newer wireless security.
A port scanner, assuming I am not using a remote one then oh dear apt-get install nmap has to be added to my new install script.
wget is going to come as part of basically every distro, to be fair I did have to separately install command line whois on this machine and curl would probably not have come as standard.
A hard drive reader. 99% of the time most people will not even have to worry about timestamps on files, let alone the "I hope they do not pull up the run time from SMART logs and compare" stuff that kali heads towards.
plus a USB drive full of stuff from
http://www.nirsoft.net/
Debugging tools will probably be better served by a machine set up for programming which is not kali out of the box and for something that might be obfuscated it certainly does not include big boy IDA.
I reckon downloading things from nirsoft and extracting them will be the longer part of that, give or take setting up the debugging stuff, and kali does not provide me with those.
Everything else is a wonderful tool for its domain but for most it is the same as the shiny tools that I see which never get used.
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