Newbie switch from Mate to Budgie desktop

billj

I just installed Solus, opened terminal and installed Budgie, restarted the computer, but it's still Mate as desktop. What do I have to do to turn off Mate and turn on Budgie desktop? Thanks.

Staudey

First of all if you just installed Solus anyway, I would strongly recommend just doing a fresh install from the Budgie ISO instead of replacing the desktop environment (which will leave you with lots of additional packages you don't need, possible configuration issues, etc.)

Now, if you want to continue down this path (again, not recommended), there should be an option on your login screen to switch to Budgie, provided you installed it correctly (i.e. following these instructions)
If I'm not mistaken (can't check at the moment) you have to click on the little MATE logo to get all the available options for different sessions.

brent

Staudey Now, if you want to continue down this path (again, not recommended), there should be an option on your login screen to switch to Budgie, provided you installed it correctly

concur. tried this once with budgie/gnome and ended horribly since you can't rm a DM and run both unless both share a DM. So in theory Budgie/Mate should be fine but still would never try the 'switching' environments thing in any circumstance--just my phobia.
Explored some distros where they throw lxqt, kde, gnome, openbox, name-a-DE (all por ejemplo) all together in one bundle, counting on the little switcher at login page to seamlessly handle the switcheroos. I don't think that's a linux mechanism that is dialed in to where it should be yet.