I came to understand the philosophy and the kind of user, and specially workflow, most desktop environments try to appeal
however, I don’t fully understand Budgie, have you used it? what can you tell me about it?
I do know, that the open nature of GNU/Linux makes not everything having to “fill a gap”, there can be more than one project with similar goals and that’s okay I just want to know it better
I dunno but Budgie could very well be an alternate DE for Linux Mint for those longing for Qtness.
Why does everyone in this thread hate KDE?
I love Plasma, habe been using it for almost 2 years and don’t want to change.
Asked myself the same, played with it on a spare laptop and I liked that it was sort of gnome with Windows UI, replaced it with xfce after they started using kde stuff more and more, yuck.
Budgie was started by Ikey Doherty for Solus. So quick background on Ikey, he does things because he thinks he has a better way of doing it, and he doesn’t do it for others so much as himself.
So we could probably say Budgie came about because Ikey wanted a desktop that suited him and his new (at the time) Solus project. And now it just goes on.
He’s at it again too. His work on Aeryn OS is all about building his own tools. He reinvents the wheel because it’s what suits him.
budgie 11’s move to qt will sorta ‘fill a gap’ between lxqt and kde.
Thats like the worst of all worlds for me
I think Budgie is meant for Windows 10 fans. Raven sidebar looks like action center in Windows 10.
I am sorry if my English is bad.
Your English is fine friend!
Budgie was released prior to Windows 10 though.
My headcanon is that they wanted to offer a modern middle ground between GNOME and KDE Plasma. Perhaps we might refer to it as “COSMIC before COSMIC” but without:
- being built on Rust,
- Wayland-first design,
- easy and well-thought-out tiling on demand.
COSMIC before COSMIC
that’s a really cool view, maybe that’s the “gap” they tried to fill before getting stuck without tiling too
for people who won’t budge from their current DEs, budgie will help them with that
I used budgie quite some time ago, probably 8 years ago or so. I had an older, low power laptop at the time and budgie worked well on it. It was gnome-adjacent, and I like gnome, so I used it until the lappy died.
Hope that helps.
They sell computers, perhaps they just want to be a unique.
i tried it out a few years ago and liked it. it was more responsive than gnome and not as overloaded with settings like kde while looking more modern than cinnamon. i couldnt use it as a daily driver though because i own a tablet like device and touch was not really supported at that time at least.
