Budgie

A modern, minimalist desktop environment from Solus.

Budgie is a desktop environment that pairs a streamlined panel-based layout with deep integration with the GNOME underlying stack. The desktop has its own raven side panel for notifications, a calendar, and applets; the rest of the stack (GNOME Settings, much of the application set) is shared with plain GNOME, which keeps Budgie's maintenance burden manageable.

Budgie was originally developed for the Solus distribution by Ikey Doherty, then moved out as the independent Buddies of Budgie organisation. Recent work focuses on Budgie 11, a Wayland- first rewrite away from GNOME-specific dependencies.

Budgie has never reached the install share of GNOME or KDE Plasma, but is the default desktop on Solus and an option on many other distributions (Ubuntu Budgie is the official flavour). Its main appeal is to users who want a more traditional, panel-with-applets layout without the customisation overhead of KDE Plasma.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Category: Desktop

Website: https://buddiesofbudgie.org/

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install budgie-desktop
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install @budgie-desktop
Arch:          sudo pacman -S budgie

Authors

Buddies of Budgie

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