Budgie Is Worth a Try

Re:Budgie Is Worth a Try by nightowl_games on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:53PM (#26104794)

I dont like Gnome's defaults. I have the standard GNOME 2 was better mindset. Honestly its the giant app switcher thingy that comes up when you press Super. I just cant stand that. But I wanted the "it just works" aspect of Ubuntu, so I looked around and went with Ubuntu Budgie. I would have gone full solus, but I needed to run Unity3D so I stuck with Ubuntu. I think Budgie is the best looking DE for my tastes. Most things worked great, but I did have a few random problems. I had a bug in Plank where new apps wouldnt show up on it. I gave up on fixing it and switched to Linux Mint. Mint's Cinnamon and Budgie are pretty similar, and Mint just had a few more years of maturity under its belt.

I'm really happy to see Solus continuing development, especially after it's original creator left the project.

I'm very happy with the state of Linux DE's these days. The haters are always gonna hate but Budgie, Pantheon, Cinnamon and MATE are all light years ahead of where we were not long ago. And like other posters have mentioned, we are also witnessing a decay in the quality of MacOS.

Keep up the great work Linux DE developers!

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Re:Budgie Is Worth a Try by greyandgreen on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:13PM (#26106499)

Agreed. Most DEs are well designed and work well enough. I just don't like busy UIs. I am now on Gnome on Pop!_OS because the latest Gnome, at least on Pop, seems to stay out of my way. On Fedora or other, there are so many errors that constantly present themselves. Window Maker is what I used for years until I discovered Pop. I may yet install WM on top of Pop.

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