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What is meant by "daily driving"?
That it’s the OS they’ve been using daily for whatever they need to accomplish on a computer, as opposed to just using it occasionally.
Is this an ESL thing or something? Why not just say "using daily"?
I think it's a bleedover from car culture - you keep your fun car in the garage and have a second car that you're okay with driving daily. Especially so during winter.
I've come across this term in a few different contexts (e.g. hardware and software) and I don't associate it with EAL/non-native speakers.
A quick search backs up @jecht360's etymology as coming from the car world.
That'd include someone's side ossie, something you might drop if it ever got too lippy, or 'not fun'. This is their ride or die.
It would be the OS (in this context) that you use most often on a daily basis. When the OP logs onto their computer, they would be using Linux as opposed to Windows.