I run Budgie as my daily drive here and I have had to work through some things because I’m a little keyboard kind of guy and a click kind of guy. So when it comes to Budgie I customize some of the keybinding shortcuts to my liking but for the most part leave the GUI the way it is out of the box.
EOS Budgie is nice but came out of the box stripped down and missing some features that I would like to not have to install such as a screenshot tool, wallpaper manager (I use wallstreet control), and for me it was weird with budgie-control-center vs gnome-control-center. I was buying into EOS when they were doing that transition.
Otherwise I like the UI a ton and I tried it and loved it for a while when solus linux first lauched.
As commented elsewhere I would like to use Budgie, as it is GNOME without the mouse and keyboard being worn out by all the moving around the screen and clicking/typing, but it is just too quirky at present.
The Desktop is a particular problem - for example, drag and drop is incomplete, and the forced automatic order and position of icons is annoying. I have to open two nemo windows to drag from the Desktop to another folder, or vice versa.
Nemo appears to have been rather tacked on because gtk4 applications cannot be themed from Budgie (so Nautilus had to be replaced).
I hope that the upcoming 10.7 will improve the Desktop and the integration between the various parts of Budgie (original and borrowed); if it does, I will be back in a flash.
Certainly there are a lot of improvements - there is no need now to add applets to fill in functionality missing in Raven and the menu.
But I see that they don’t plan to improve the desktop. I worked out a hack which replaced Budgie’s desktop with Nemo’s desktop (already installed, as Nemo is the file manager) but I won’t publish it because it needs more research (for example, the icon size, spacing etc. can’t be configured at present).
Groan now I can’t get into their site. DNS problem or something, I thought I was blocked. Yes I lurk in their forum once in a while although I really shouldn’t.
All right, I posted that and didn’t read the whole thread.
Sort of on-topic: my only experience with Budgie was Ubuntu Budgie. Didn’t like it. I thought Unity released a short time ago was a magnitude better. To me, Budgie doesn’t make me want to like GNOME any more or any less. I’d rather avoid it. I don’t like KDE Plasma that well neither but… we Linux users are really spoiled for choice.
Budgie is simple and elegant – not my words. Easy to navigate for a newcomer. If he or she digests the shortcuts it is very productive. Downside as opposed to KDE no multiple shortcuts to the same function. No Alt+F4 and Super+Q. I can tolerate this.
I enjoy Cinnamon but that old school Mate system settings window and the big sqare box app menu have always been off-putting to me—we all have something we can’t get used to with any DE so one man’s irk is another man’s jewel in this realm methinks.
My deep-seated K phobia comes from K-apps crippling Budgie in the past. They don’t all play nice and they don’t all come with a warning and they don’t always belong in a gnome-framework and if I try a K-app they always seem to triple my system updates like bunnies multiplying.
You are a funny guy! And I likely need a shrink!
and didn’t read the whole thread.
