Budgie (desktop environment)

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Budgie is a desktop environment, leveraging GNOME technologies such as GTK+ (> 3.x), and is developed by the Solus project, as well as contributors from numerous communities like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux and Ubuntu Budgie. Budgie's design emphasizes efficiency, simplicity, elegance, and usability, especially usability for new users. It gives an experience on the desktop similar to that of mobile operating systems such as Android. It also resembles GNOME. It places less emphasis on the customizability and virtual desktop handling sought by experienced power users, although more recent versions are somewhat more configurable.

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Applications

Budgie desktop tightly integrates with the GNOME stack, employing underlying technologies to offer an alternative desktop experience. Budgie applications generally use GTK and header bars similar to GNOME applications. Budgie builds what is effectively a Favorites list automatically as the user works, moving categories and applications toward the top of menus when they are used.

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History

Budgie was initially developed as the default desktop environment for the Evolve OS Linux distribution. After the name change of Evolve OS to Solus, development of Budgie accelerated.

Early versions of Budgie were slow and prone to crashes. Speed and reliability have improved with time.

Budgie v1 was released 2014-02-18, v10 on 2015-12-27. The versioning scheme since changed, with the current release being 10.4.

Starting with version 11, Budgie will be rewritten in Qt.

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Adoption

Arch Linux: Budgie Desktop is available in Arch Linux's Community repository as well as distributed as budgie-desktop-git in the Arch User Repository.

Debian GNU/Linux: Budgie Desktop is available in Debian's main repositories in the Testing and Unstable branches and is included in Stable from Debian 9.

GeckoLinux: GeckoLinux, an openSUSE-based distribution, provides GeckoLinux Budgie.

Manjaro: In November 2015, the Manjaro Community announced the availability of Manjaro Budgie 15.11, on June 14, 2016, the availability of Manjaro Budgie 16.06.1.

Solus: Solus's primary desktop environment is Budgie.

Ubuntu Budgie: The first version of the Ubuntu Budgie distribution was 17.04; it is an official Ubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 differs from the original Ubuntu 17.04 distribution only in that Budgie is the default desktop interface. As of June 2017, Ubuntu Budgie was among the most popular Ubuntu variants.