I ran Manjaro Linux as my daily driver a few years ago but slowly phased it out for Windows for some reason, and I’m finally back using Linux (currently Linux Mint). I gotta say, I don’t know why I ever switched back to Windows. There’s just so much freedom Linux gives you right off the bat that Windows is just plain stubborn about. The final straw for me was a couple weeks ago when Microsoft added a Copilot (Bing AI) Shortcut to my Windows 11 taskbar. They’d already added ads to my start menu and preinstalled a bunch of garbage that should be opt-in, not opt-out, so I was just fed up with it at that point. Plus, Linux is so much more customizable. Been running Mint for about a week and a half now, and honestly, I don’t think I’ll be using Windows much anymore.
Daily Driver
Here’s someone using the term in 2011.
https://xdaforums.com/t/what-os-are-you-using-as-your-daily-driver.919218/
And I’m sure there are plenty of older examples.
But some others are here from 2015
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34990
2017
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222919
2014 (ish?)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2njaz3/what_are_you_using_as_your_daily_driver/
All that from a simple google search.