dostana To repair your Budgie DE. run this command in terminal

budgie-panel --reset --replace &

I believe the reason you have black screen at login is Budgie/Gnome use different login - slick-greeter/lightdm-gtk-greeter

      Quite simply the best DESKTOP distro (irrespective of DE) currently available in the Linux world, but everyone here already knows that.

      The real question: where is Solus 4 Plasma? The notion that it isn't stable yet is, quite frankly, an inexcusable lie or gross misinterpretation of reality on the part of Solus' honored developers. Look, I know you're stressed and might not be seeing things clearly, but I've thoroughly tried them all. Every distro, every cycle, on a variety of different hardware. There is not one Plasma distro that comes close to the present high quality and stability of Solus'. Not one. It's been a daily driver for me since late 2018, and it's time for some official respect!

        JohannPopper Sorry Johann, but Plasma is on vacation for at least two weeks. (lol) Then I suspect we'll see some action.
        Like you, I've been very happy with Solus Plasma edition.

          JohannPopper I think it's time for some official respect from you towards the volunteer developers. We are not stopping you from using it. It will be official when it's official.

          CraigMatze GNOME requires GDM to login to GNOME, Budgie works on either.

                Justin Any chance that Budgie 11 is going to have it's own login manager? I just wish we could stop depending on stuff developed on gnome so much.

                    Fatih19 Budgie doesn't use the Gnome login manager. GDM is only used by the Gnome edition of Solus. Also there is already lot of things to do for Budgie 11.

                    The more is added in the Budgie 11 roadmap, the longer it will take to have it released... just saying...

                        My appreciations to Solus Team, Frankly speaking Solus got me addicted after installation. After 3weeks of tedious testing with different distros to get a snappy and responsive system. I accept Solus is snappy and good for my AMD A9 Acer laptop. Though i love Deepin for its elegance and Gnome DE. But i had to take a U-Turn to Solus Budgie DE and have to accept what team is giving to community is good. I would suggest Solus developers to explore best practices be included in Solus. Stop redundancy and complexity like KDE or other DE make each and every icon or menu meaningful. Live with KISS concept.Chau

                        kyrios If you're going to rewrite the whole thing, might as well make it good. I wouldn't mind if Budgie is released next year. As long as it's worth the time you've taken IMO it's fine.

                            Fatih19 Using someone else code isn't a bad thing (especially if it's have the same goal or can be easily integrated). Solus Budgie actually use LightDM for the login manager and we can customize the look for Solus by implementing our own LightDM's greeter later.

                              5 days later

                              I just wanted to say that this version pretty much made it possible for me to switch fully to Linux (especially gaming wise). Thank you for this distro, it is VERY MUCH appreciated. It runs smooth on my desktop PC and everything works from the start. Keep up the good work!

                              dostana Wasn't my decision to rewrite Budgie. If the changes are drastic enough, long wait is worth it. That's what I was saying.

                                Joined forum to make this post as new arrival to Solus. Chronic distro hopper here, been waiting for a new Solus before test driving it. Running now off live USB as I write on older ACER Travelmate 5735z, 4Gb ram. Everything worked straight away, wifi, sound, plays YT vids and FAST. So impressed I am gonna wipe a freshly setup MX and go for Solus install. Thanks! 😁

                                  6 days later

                                  Hey JoshStrobl, do you plan a new release soon with new fresh ISOs after the last sync stabilized? I would like to perform a fresh installation soon, and I think it's better to wait a bit if there will be fresh ISOs soon.