I can’t use Linux as my daily driver anymore
I can’t use Linux as my daily driver anymore
https://www.makeuseof.com/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore/
Publish Date: 2026-03-04 11:00:00
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This isn’t about Windows being better than Linux, nor is it about Linux being the ultimate. I have used Windows since Windows XP, and I have been through every version up to Windows 11. However, Windows 11 was the first Windows OS that wasn’t my daily driver. I replaced it with Linux Mint, after stints with Ubuntu, Fedora, and a dozen other distributions I can’t recall, including an adventure into Kali Linux.
Objectively speaking, the only reason anyone distro-hops is because there is a missing element or some dissatisfaction. It was why I left Windows, but also why I have skipped around a lot within the Linux ecosystem. A daily driver should be a choice of conviction, not a compromise.
Linux gave me control, but also responsibility
The paradox of infinite choice
Afam Onyimadu / MUO
The starting point with Linux is selecting a system architecture. This process is more demanding than I’d like to admit, because you’re going through the mental process of designing a computer, starting right from the desktop environment. The common options are GNOME, with its opinionated minimalism; KDE Plasma, which has finally matured with Plasma 6; and Linux Mint’s Cinnamon. These are all great options, yet in daily use, they’re materially different.
If you cross that first hurdle with any real conviction for one or the other, you then turn to update philosophies. One option will give you the newest…
