Budgie of course; on Solus and Debian Sid

7 days later

Bridouz You pretty much summarized it for me! I can make Budgie look how I want, and it works. As for KDE, it's so complex that it's easy to break. And for Gnome, well I just don't like it's lack of customization and reliance on addons to make it work like I want it to (resulting in less stability).

    downhill
    Same for me friend, would with openbox and tint 2 works great and Budgie as my fall back choice.

      GNOME! I like its simplicity and consistency. I don't even use much of custom themes, except for ingenious Papirus icons. Can't wait for updated Nautilus in Solus, any idea where it comes?

      I m love gnome because very different other desktop but a little bit slow. so waiting the new version gnome (3.34 stable)

      I like Budgie because it has an elegant desk, and grants great customization capabilities to the user, very good the issue of notifications, the control center and the layout of the elements

      2 months later

      Used budgie exclusively, but got annoyed by some things that didn't work very nicely. Then installed KDE and am very pleased. I am not even inclined to customize anything, which is rare for me 🤣

        I love GNOME Shell in general, but I'd probably use the Budgie edition if there were an applet port of Andy Holmes' masterful GSConnect (or if I could make one). As it is, I choose not to live without that luminous extension in my life.

        Plasma edition is easily the best Plasma implementation (well, really it's the great unbreakable Solus curated app store) I've ever reviewed by every rational criterion of desktop usage, and its performance + graphical effects far outshine GNOME Shell (although GNOME apps and the Shell workflow are elegant beyond expectation, let's get real). However, again, KDE Connect, despite being the foundation of GSConnect, isn't nearly as useful as what Andy Holmes has done with GSConnect.

        So, I'm stuck with Solus GNOME for now. 'Stuck' as in all distro hopping ceased for me way back in 2017 upon first trying Solus GNOME. It's just that good. One continuous system for 2 years, upgrading constantly, barely any bugs and they don't last long. I have been to the mountain.

        For now GNOME. It's simple and gets out of my way. And I like to work with workspaces, somehow it feels more natural in Gnome than in Budgie

        Allready for years : Solus Gnome.
        Greetings, Evert

        kyrios I use Mate too. It's the first DE I also use on different distros.

          4 days later

          I prefer GNOME but must admit I have never tried Budgie. Maybe some day when I feel like tinkering I will give it a go to compare them since so many of you seem to prefer it.

          Until the strat I use budgie

          sgvd Same to me, just a problem with Asian input method in KDE/qt apps. Do you have any problem with Brightness Function key, like this:
          Brightness control not working well when playing media in Firefox
          "I have problem with function key fn+f4/f5 to adjust my backlight, but this problem just knock on me when i am playing media in Firefox like music, video, so weird @_@. I can use function key, but when i press fn+f4/f5 one time, slide bar suddenly go down/up continuously until it reach limit and i can't do anything but see it automatic changes itself. Others place backlight fn+f4/f5 work fine, except website has media in Firefox ?!? Before i see this bug has happened in Ubuntu lts 18.4 (but in almost places), but i can fix by switch session to Wayland. But Solus doesn't offer this option yet. Oh wait...i'm using Solus Plasma up to date. I have installed xbacklight, powertop, but neither of them work for me. And sometime after bug i hit a whole system freezes that i can't do anything (include open up Terminal using Ctrl+alt+f2) except a force shutdown by press power button. Very annoying if i want to change laptop backlight while watching Youtube or listen to music online."

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              dinhnam I don't have solus on a laptop, so I am not sure I can verify this behaviour...

                budgie budgie budgie, I did try the gnome version recently and it's pretty cool but I like budgie better.

                budgie with the mate version in virtualbox, not a fan of gnome

                Big Gnome fan. Budgie is very nice, but once I got used to not using a windows type main menu and layout, I don't really care to go back to it now. Gnome is very smooth and more intuitive for me now. What I like the most about Gnome is the method of accessing multiple virtual desktops is, to me, very nice. The other traditional system using a panel widget or using my mouse wheel on the background was......meh. My mouse wheel seemed more prone to accidentally switch the desktop on me, which was annoying.

                Gnome does consume more resources, (which is really not an issue on my 16 GB RAM machine).Solus Gnome does seem to run lighter on the RAM than others I have tried (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro).

                Works great! Thanks Solus!