{"id":219818,"date":"2026-03-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:40:10","slug":"i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t use Linux as my daily driver anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore\/\">I can&#8217;t use Linux as my daily driver anymore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;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&#8217;t my daily driver. I replaced it with Linux Mint, after stints with Ubuntu, Fedora, and a dozen other distributions I can&#8217;t recall, including an adventure into Kali Linux.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"linux-gave-me-control-but-also-responsibility\">\n                        Linux gave me control, but also responsibility<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-paradox-of-infinite-choice\">\n            The paradox of infinite choice<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Afam Onyimadu \/ MUO<\/p>\n<p> The starting point with Linux is selecting a system architecture. This process is more demanding than I&#8217;d like to admit, because you&#8217;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&#8217;s Cinnamon. These are all great options, yet in daily use, they&#8217;re materially different.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-cant-use-linux-as-my-daily-driver-anymore\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;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 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a-computer-running-steam-on-linux-connected-to-a-monitor.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71,110,79],"class_list":["post-219818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219820,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818\/revisions\/219820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}