Solus GNOME vs Budgie.

Budgie. Because it's much lighter compared to Gnome even though it doesn't have all the bells and whistles.

Plus I like the whole "custom OS from scratch (Solus) with a custom desktop (Budgie) maintained by the same guys who know what they want.

RLFontan Budgie development is leaded by the Solus Project so it is the flagship desktop environment this distro. Just like Cinnamon is the flagship DE of LinuxMint.
If you want to have the best experience/integration/fastest updates, you will naturally go to the source.

When I first downloaded solus I installed gnome as that's what I use in every distro, Then I was reading everywhere that budgie is the best user experience. I downloaded and installed it this morning, I am in love with it.
This distro hopper has done his last hop. Thank you to the team behind it, Definitely one of the best distros out there.

I don't want to change my workflow

I don't like dock, fullscreen menu, giant icons, etc
Budgie wins for me

I prefer Budgie because of the Raven sidebar which is in my opinion a pretty unique experience. It can show me what songs that I'm playing on spotify, I can control the sound devices that I was using. So far, I've been willing to trade the lack of optimization in dock mode and the lack of multi-monitor support just for that sidebar.

Seriously though, why can't the icons of the panel scaled accordingly when we increase the size of the panel? Budgie 10.5 would've been perfect with that little addition.

Fatih19 They do update, in steps that are scalable. Icon downscaling is pretty poor and you lose a lot of detail even when you're doing bilinear.

JoshStrobl I get that. But isn't the icon theme uses SVG which are vector not raster, so that it's scalable without losing quality?

Fatih19 Icons being vectors is not guaranteed, there are many icon themes which use inkscape or similar, then optipng, as part of their tooling for converting SVGs to PNGs, just makes it easier for them to scale it to a specific size (16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32, 64x64, 96x96, 128x128, 256x256, 512x512 (a rarity though)).

I'll be the odd guy.
I love Budgie. But when I tweak it the way I want, it ends up looking a lot like Gnome, except without the automatic workspace additions on the right when I press the windows button.

papakanush with the addition of a cool sidebar.

I landed at Budgie - heard how great Linux was from a friend of the wife, all they would use was Linux Mint it was the greatest experience ever in computing. Got to where I hated Windows anything, since I could not afford to play with Apple.
Tried Mint Cinnamon first then hopped to Mint Mate, then started hopping to anything and everything to find something that just scratched my itch.After bouncing around gaming forums looking for an answer to wanting to game the couple games I liked. I stumbled on a Gaming Forum where a poster mentioned in a very thorough written post about Gaming with Solus and not just any Solus because he tried all 3 DEs at that time but to use Solus Budgie 3.9999 not anything else.
He was very passionate about being clear with the whole 3.9999 and making sure to use Budgie.

I thought to my self ( SELF ) if this guy can get this excited about something that is Total Free plus he is not a ( PAID ) endorsement it must be some what decent. Little did I know why he was that excited over Solus, but I soon found out first hand. I don't use all the extra add ons / I don't use any of the apps, or widgets not sure of name / I use a single bar only across the bottom / when I think of a dock I think of boats no idea what it is for. I am a simple guy with simple modest taste.
Budgie i.e. Solus Budgie just works - it works very well, does everything I need it to.