The Budgie desktop team announced today the release and general availability of Budgie 10.9 as the latest version of this modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.
If you need more than “modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions” to figure out what the project is, then you’re probably not the target audience for 9to5Linux.
I like its simplicity, and how light weight it is. It can be customized pretty well—I like all my stuff on top. I also like that it’s a smaller group of people that are pretty focused on improvements and less about politics. They release updates frequently, and listen to user requests. It’s worked out of the box on whatever I put it on, unlike some other distros (note: I use the distro, not just the DE)
its not bad per se, i feel like it lacks attention to detail and more ux people on the team.
dialogues and DE utilities look inconsistent to eachother. spacing and sizes of things, including icons and fonts look not that well tought out, making the whole thing feel off, kind of cheap or amateurish.
this might have changed since i gave it a real try but it lacks many small qol features like disabling some indicators i dont use and other assorted small stuff many othet des implement.
i find this type of stuff is common among smaller des
You should try 10.8, slap Ubuntubudgie.org on a usb and give it a shot. Or way a month or so for 10.9 which supports Wayland. They have a lot of what you mentioned now.
I settled for vanilla Ubuntu many centuries ago and liked it enough to stick with it. Been feeling like trying other stuff again just to see how things have been developing, hence my interest. Get that slightly greener grass under my feet for a lil bit.
So long as its something reasonably mature that won’t get in my way. I’m inclined to try Budgie again. Plasma 6, Cosmic and a couple of others are looking nice too.
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