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I'm the world's biggest fan of Budgie DE . I hope the pictures I have posted are visible to all of you .

I wrote another post here expressing how sad I was that Budgie is not in Mageia or GhostBSD . I've noticed that Budgie Desktop Environment does not have a website of it's own . This may be why it keeps missing out to MATE . MATE is not too different from Budgie but you can rest assured that any BSD or Linux Distro is going to have MATE , BSD Distros love MATE by the way , it is the default DE in FreeBSD , GhostBSD , NetBSD and NomadBSD - all the BSD Distros worth consideration . But when it comes to Budgie you have to keep your fingers crossed when it comes to Linux and Budgie simply does not exist in BSD .

I know that the team that maintains Budgie DE are actually the team that maintains Ubuntu Budgie and Solus OS , both of those projects have their own websites but I think it's time to give Budge DE it's own website , and we definitely need a Budgie DE BSD Port .

I know it's not hard to install Budgie DE even on a system that doesn't support it , you can download it on pkgs.org , github and linux.softpedia but like I said before we need a separate website for it and a BSD Port , that's what MATE is doing that Budgie is not and that's why Budgie keeps missing out to MATE and that is why Budgie doesn't exist in the BSD World .

    Mansions_Dave I know that the team that maintains Budgie DE are actually the team that maintains Ubuntu Budgie and Solus OS

    Budgie is a Solus project. There was an attempt to make it independent years ago (and at that time Budgie has its own website) but unfortunately it didn't get well so it's back under the Solus umbrella. Of course anyone who wants to contribute to the project is welcome to do so. BSD developers can port Budgie if they want, this is the beauty of open source.

      While Budgie used to have its own website, unfortunately the domain was owned by the previous project leader and via a provider that we did not have access to, so it ended up getting bought out by a bidding site before I could do anything about it. I own budgie-desktop.com however working on a new site for it is not a priority.

      You may find porting it over to BSD to be slightly cumbersome. We explicitly call various systemd related functions and to be honest, I don't really have much interest in having to carry code for an entire platform that isn't really going to be used or properly supported. Support for BSD would almost immediately go out the window again with Budgie 11 should support even be provided in Budgie 10 series, given the focus would be on the officially supported platform, Linux.

      I know that the team that maintains Budgie DE are actually the team that maintains Ubuntu Budgie and Solus OS

      Budgie Desktop is, as noted by Kyrios, under the Solus umbrella, and is a Solus project. It's primarily developed by Solus, with patches graciously provided by Ubuntu Budgie for things like Mutter and various crash fixes found via Ubuntu's Apport tooling. Most features and major overhauls are done by Solus folks. We don't "maintain" Ubuntu Budgie and they mostly do separate stuff that doesn't end up getting upstreamed (like separate applets for stuff like drives when we already have a places applet that could just be improved).