Budgie: Is it Good?

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  • Опубліковано 13 січ 2025

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  • @TheLinuxCast
    @TheLinuxCast  Рік тому +8

    Like this sort of content? Leaving a like really helps the channel! So does following me on Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast

    • @Bomack
      @Bomack Рік тому

      I tried three times posting some really helpful info about Budgie but for some reason none of it is "Sticking".

  • @lonercheki
    @lonercheki Рік тому +26

    Budgie is amogus version of GNOME , i mean ; imposter gnome xD

    • @user-tc9tb3a
      @user-tc9tb3a Рік тому +12

      I think this comment is kinda sus

  • @peppe540
    @peppe540 Рік тому +29

    Surprised you didn't try the Fedora Budgie spin; it is where Josh Strobl (main dev) is right now. And Solus has been revived by Josh and ikey, so whoever likes that: here's a lot happening in Budgie. Agree with your view it is a 'livable' Gnome. Development on Wayland version is ongoing as well.

  • @adalas293
    @adalas293 11 місяців тому +8

    Will I live to see the time when Linux developers finally make settings options for selecting the number of scrolling lines on the mouse wheel ?!! Windows '98 ALREADY HAD THIS .

  • @TheDrunkenAlcoholic
    @TheDrunkenAlcoholic Рік тому +11

    The menu is called the "Brisk" menu, it was originally written from scratch by Ikey, Josh and ikey both left solus and you are right, budgie is now its own project, but recently both ikey and josh have returned to Solus and are about to drop new iso for all the flavours, mostly just for updates, but now have a plan to actualyl make progress with Solus by adding new features and immutable base system like all the other cool kids have these days. So if they stick with it, Solus could be back to being the most innovative distro again, as it was back 5 years ago or so

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  Рік тому +4

      That was the name I was looking for. Thank you

    • @TRDTYukiTV
      @TRDTYukiTV Рік тому +1

      they already released 4.4 with kernel 6.3 and alot of support newer AMD hardware and stuff, the problem with Solus OS is whilst budgie was updated, we went almost 2 years with no communication, updates, and that burned quite a few lovers of Solus OS.
      I personally loved Solus, i loved the out of the box experience, and eopkg, and what they were doing, and while i understand its 2 people running a project the lengthy silence broke trust with users who would main this distro, i just hope they get some serious backing that will keep them alive and reliable

  • @emjaycee
    @emjaycee Рік тому +4

    I quite like the Ultramarine version of Budgie myself. But yeah, I also understand your concerns re ongoing directions and stability.

  • @phonewithoutquestion80
    @phonewithoutquestion80 Рік тому +11

    Budgie and Cinnamon are really where Gnome 3 should have been. You couldn't twist my arm to use gnome before at least version 42. Glad Budgie seems to be going somewhere now

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Рік тому +4

      Yes that's the way Gnome 3 should have gone, if anything. The way they went was with a silly jumbo touch screen smartphone/tablet type UI that isn't suitable for desktop computing use.

  •  Рік тому +9

    I don't know why people should choose budgie at this current state. Other DE give more functionality, stability like cinnamon, xfce or mate. If you choose gnome or kde plasma than you even got wayland.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Рік тому +3

      I agree that Cinnamon, xfce and Mate are the best options but Budgie is still much nicer to use than Plasma and GNOME.

    • @HybridTheoryXero
      @HybridTheoryXero 5 місяців тому +1

      @@folksurvival why you said that? KDE is fully customizable and ready to go if you don't want to "experiment" with your DE. Gnome otherwise is too much vanilla and need a lot of tweaks to make a descent workflow

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 5 місяців тому

      @@HybridTheoryXero I changed my opinion. I think Plasma and even Gnome (with extensions) are better than Budgie now.

  • @BG101UK
    @BG101UK Рік тому

    11:05 I'd be interested to see what options the screenshot tool gives with more than one display connected? It's something I use quite a lot in KDE.

  • @haplozetetic9519
    @haplozetetic9519 3 місяці тому

    I was lucky and discovered various window managers quite early on in 1999. I think I was just browsing available packages and was curious.
    Unfortunately, I just can't stand the GTK appearance and no DE is sufficiently configurable for me. I hope that changes...preferably sooner rather than later. Even Labwc doesn't seem to have all the features I prefer, and it's a real nightmare to get everything working.

  • @keylowmike85
    @keylowmike85 Рік тому +1

    Great work! I knew that Budgie existed, but I've never used it.

  • @LouigiVerona
    @LouigiVerona Рік тому +1

    Thank you for the review. I wasn't aware of it and as a user of Xubuntu I can relate to their design decisions.

  • @FrasSmith
    @FrasSmith Рік тому +3

    Surprised you didn't take a look at "Window Shuffler" which is the Budgie take on tiling.

    • @Germoney2000
      @Germoney2000 Рік тому +1

      Video was way too short... he missed a lot of stuff.

  • @nocturnalcook
    @nocturnalcook Рік тому +4

    I like budgie because its so simple

  • @TRDTYukiTV
    @TRDTYukiTV Рік тому +3

    Budgie is okay, but i much prefer just using gnome with extensions to get the same look

  • @tomas-wi8dy
    @tomas-wi8dy Рік тому +3

    I'm a happy budgie user. (on Spiral Linux)

  • @mylinuxforwork
    @mylinuxforwork Рік тому +1

    For me, Budgie looks a kind of outdated. When I would switch away from Qtile to a desktop environment, I would probably choose Gnome or KDE and customize it. Sounds like a video idea for an upcoming recording.

  • @sitaroartworks
    @sitaroartworks 4 місяці тому

    Yes and no. It's lighter than Gnome and Cinnamon because they have no extras like desktop widgets. It's nice, minimal and the Raven panel is quietly interesting and well made.

  • @Skelterbane69
    @Skelterbane69 Рік тому +1

    I kinda wanna try the panel,but idk if it works on wayland
    Not much info on it, out there

  • @TrustJesusToday
    @TrustJesusToday Рік тому

    Budgie and Cinnamon are straightforward, comfortable desktop environments. Although I am playing around with KDE on a iMac, Budgie and Cinnamon are on my daily desktop and notebook PCs. 10 months later...Fedora and Hyprland with Budgie as an alternative. Who'd a thunk it?

  • @johanb.7869
    @johanb.7869 Рік тому +2

    100th like😊 Better late than never, congrats on the 30.000 subs😎 I hate it when the theme is not consistent. With QT on KDE it's much better. I'm a mister perfect so when not consistent, I won't use it. That's the main reason why I left Xfce and Gnome and went with KDE.

    • @LovecraftianGodsKiller
      @LovecraftianGodsKiller Рік тому

      One of the primary things keeping me on KDE is how well it supports theming Qt and GTK applications. Qt apps are a given, but GTK, I love how you just install a GTK theme, select said GTK in the KDE system settings, hit apply and *BAM* all your GTK apps are now themed.
      I really wish GNOME and other distros based on GTK would do what KDE does, for GTK, but for Qt apps. And yes, Kvantum does exist but it is not consistent. Dolphin, my favorite file manager, does not get themed correctly when using Kvantum

  • @BtZealot
    @BtZealot Рік тому

    I try to follow news on budgie. This is my understanding of the road to eleven: first is they had to unify the developement across distros. I'm not for sure how successful that was. But now they are keeping the GTK version usable with a few upgrades and they are progressing with the Enlightenment libraries.

  • @milohoffman274
    @milohoffman274 Рік тому +1

    If you want a very stripped down Windows-like experience then its as good as any of the other ones that provide that. It is what it is.

  • @mugichi8597
    @mugichi8597 3 місяці тому

    budgie looks like beta version of cinnamon

  • @funkijote
    @funkijote 5 місяців тому

    OP's like "In my younger days I was Linux distro promiscuous" 😂

  • @CRYPTiCEXiLE
    @CRYPTiCEXiLE 2 місяці тому

    i stick with arch linux in the last 18 years , but i still distro hop between nixos and gentoo

  • @htx80nerd
    @htx80nerd 10 місяців тому

    I've actually never used Budgie and dont think I've even seen it before.

  • @vehementham
    @vehementham Рік тому +1

    I've never used budgie. Somehow.

  • @schemage2210
    @schemage2210 Рік тому

    To be fair, theming/modifying Gnome is very bifurcated as you put it. System settings go to the system control panel. Desktop extensions and theming, go to gnome tweaks. Budgie shows its origins clearly.

  • @sbedivere6937
    @sbedivere6937 Рік тому

    I tried budgie on endeavour os and i got this weird behavior. When raven slides in and out the shadow of raven is not in sync. The shadow is showing in it's final position even if raven is still in it's slide animation.
    Does anyone know what could cause this?

    • @sbedivere6937
      @sbedivere6937 Рік тому

      Complety uninstalling GNOME and after that installing Budgie did the trick

  • @Germoney2000
    @Germoney2000 Рік тому +1

    If you're gonna do a video about Budgie, I would recommed Ubuntu Budgie. It just looks better. Have been using it for almost 4 years now on my main PC. I also have it installed on a TUXEDO Laptop that respects the Dark-setting 100%. I use the App-Menu which is much better than the Budgie-Menu (in my opinion). I have a Dock at the bottom (Plank) kind of like Apple... and you can even add a Global Menu up top, if you like. Its all in the settings... just a click away.

    • @elyzsabethahne2116
      @elyzsabethahne2116 7 місяців тому +1

      Ubuntu Budgie is my preferred choice of distro on my desktop computer. I love it!

  • @RedBearAK
    @RedBearAK Рік тому

    I have never been impressed by Budgie. The most recent Ubuntu Budgie in a Boxes VM crashes out of the whole desktop when I try to open any settings app. Xubuntu had a similar problem, but it was whenever I deleted a file in the file manager. All the other Ubuntu flavors and a over dozen other Linux distros of all types had no such issues.

  • @kici5777
    @kici5777 Рік тому

    Yes

  • @John7No
    @John7No Рік тому

    budgie used to be what gnome should have been. unfortunately it did not grow well. I was very enthusiastic back then as well, but it kinda seems to be in a limbo state.

    • @spudhandle
      @spudhandle Рік тому

      Gnome can easily be this, 15 minutes of playing with extensions.....It's not needed.

    • @John7No
      @John7No Рік тому

      @@spudhandle problem with Gnome nowadays is that it is buggy, the extensions you hope they will get updated soon enough to work , and the theming is horrible. QT is no longer supported, and even between the different versions of gtk the theming does not apply in most cases

  • @darthkielbasa
    @darthkielbasa Рік тому

    16:57 kinda disappointed with that #ramble session

  • @zenmaster24
    @zenmaster24 Рік тому +1

    not even gonna watch the video - yes it is, but only if you want a lighter gnome
    been using it full time for close to 6 years

    • @Germoney2000
      @Germoney2000 Рік тому

      Been using Ubuntu Budgie for 4 years now on my main PC. Have also tried Manjyro, KDE, Mint, Ubuntu, Lite, etc.. on my Laptop. KDE is like an Ice-Cream Parlor with 1000 flavours.... who needs it? Sticking with U-Budgie thank you very much.

  • @Aoitori365
    @Aoitori365 Рік тому

    cinnamon is better

  • @omar.eskandar
    @omar.eskandar Рік тому +1

    gnome is the best

  • @josephdegarmo
    @josephdegarmo Рік тому +1

    If you want a more stable GTK-based desktop, then try Cinnamon. COMMENT POSTED FRIDAY, JUNE 30 @ 11:35 PM CDT😡😡😡

    • @youdontknowme2508
      @youdontknowme2508 Рік тому +1

      Cinnamon is good but at the same time it's also so boring. They haven't figured out the Wayland side as well.

  • @josephdegarmo
    @josephdegarmo Рік тому +3

    If you want a more stable GTK-based desktop, then try Cinnamon. COMMENT POSTED FRIDAY, JUNE 30 @ 11:35 PM CDT😡😡😡

    • @josephdegarmo
      @josephdegarmo Рік тому +1

      @@Mando-Otaku No. UA-cam KEEPS DELETING MY F***ING COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @vehementham
      @vehementham Рік тому +5

      @@josephdegarmo I'm dying 😆. It looks like it isn't. Or at least on our side. You should delete all the comments except for this one, so you avoid the wrath of The Almighty Overlord.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Рік тому +1

      ​@@josephdegarmoI see at least 10 of the same comment spammed.

    • @TheDrunkenAlcoholic
      @TheDrunkenAlcoholic Рік тому

      I wouldn't say cinnamon is more stable than budgie, however it is a good alternative to budgie, I prefer budgie over cinnamon but I am currently using cinnamon DE(on arch) until Solus drop their new iso's