As the day of Microsoft saying goodbye to the dominating desktop OS (Windows 10) cointinues to near, it is that time where a few people migrate their computing life to Linux and so was mine. I chose to go with Arch-based EndeavourOS after familiarising with the upstream distribution for some months on Windows using WSL. Why EndeavourOS? It was what I wanted at the time; Arch-based, easy to install yet as close to Arch as possible unlike Manjaro & a just-works system that I can get comfortable in before I start diging into the Linux iceberg. Being honest, what I sought was what I got. And it’s TechHut that’s guilty for leading me this way.

Two months into Linux and I can truly say that Linux is as solid a daily driver as Windows. My preferences for what kind of Linux system I want and even Linux in general have changed. Linux has turned me into an OS junkie downloading ISOs, fumbling around with virtual machines and testing them as live environments on bare metal. I used to dualboot with Windows but have replaced that partition with Void Linux, a non-systemd distribution that uses the nicely simple runit init system, features options for both musl libc and glibc, and uses the xbps package manager in conjuction with xbps-src ( for compiling packages not found in the main repo) and xtools.

My Linux journey started on Windows 10 where I tried to make my desktop experience as close as to what I saw Linux users on unixporn and youtube doing so it is expected it would just reach a point I just had to use the actual operating system. LibreOffice, Okular, fastfetch, neovim, helix, zellij, VSCodium, GlazeWM (i3-like) etc. I just came to hate using a proprietary corpo operating system. Why would I, a non-gamer, non video editor, continue to do that? My needs are covered for in surplus on Linux (Arch-based distros bcoz AUR).

If EndeavourOS is that easy to use, I presume that running Mint will be like drinking water. Clicky like a socket switch. Hardware compatibility can be a thorn but in 2024, it isn’t as much of a thorn as let’s say 10 years ago. Almost anything can run Linux. except when i doesn’t which is becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence as Linux continues to advance to everyone’s desktops and laptops.

Here’s the catch: Back on Windows, it wasn’t just Linux. I had an eye for the BSDs and Solaris. I could follow along youtube channels like Robonuggie and GaryHTech. There were dead or quiet channels like RootBSD (Charlie Root), SwindlesMcCoop, TheOpenBSD Guy, So probably sooner or later I would be rocking a GhostBSD installation after I figure out how to dualboot with Linux and figuring out uber-complex ZFS and disabling its snapshots feature. GhostBSD is the beginning of the strikeback of the BSDs decades after AT&T ruined them over and Linux stole everyone’s eyes then the BSD desktop was not a first class experience but it’s more like a second-class where the baggage of Linux and FreeDesktop stuff ie dbus, Wayland, and other mad cruft.. has to be ported over for things to work. And this may be partly due to the lack of a BSD-first desktop ecosystem. But that’s the talk of another day.