Budgie desktop on Linux Mint 19.1

Kepos

Hi,

just found Budgie desktop quite interesting and wondered if I could run my LM19.1 system with it.

So far I managed to find Ubuntu Budgie backports, but they do offer an older version.

My install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install budgie-desktop

then I logged out and changed to basic budgie-desktop. No problems found so far.

Is there a way to install or update the latest Budgie from your source, preferred with ppa like above?

Currently, I'm not experienced enough to leave Ubuntu/Linux Mint LTS base as I have no idea how to install amd drivers and/or other stuff with Solus. So I'd like to keep this while only changing over desktop.

Thx in advance for your assistance.

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Kepos I have no idea how to install amd drivers

You don't

fishyman65712

Kepos - - - - I will wade off in this topic, normally I would avoid them.

I came to Linux from Windows 10 in January of this year, about 4 months with Linux.
I started with Mint because a co-worker of wife uses Mint. He thinks and feels use Mint only why bother using anything else, because he already tried everything else. Myself I was left un-impressed with Mint because you are forced to do everything through Terminal it seemed like that to me. I attempted to try out other distros only to find myself un-impressed by all that I tried, regardless of the name it was called by.
It seems to me if the ISO download was going to be over a 1.4 Gigs or like Mint a 1.9 Gigs download.
It would have a bit more polish and work-ability to it.

I found Mint to be over rated and under performing from my limited user knowledge of something I had never seen or used before. Why I say that due to no matter how many times I used the Terminal I never could get any of my after market "Plug and Play on Windows" peripherals to run or work. Time after time after time I was met with failure regardless of even how many Ubuntu based i bounced to besides Mint. But I had the same failure rate or worse with a couple of others like KDE Neon never got it to work at all.

Here is where I am going with my lengthy in depth reply.
I had yet to get the 2 games I enjoy to play working on any Linux Distro - even Ubuntu which a handful of players had the game running on their systems, yet I could never get it to running. In about 2 weeks I tried 16 different installs of Linux all yielded the exact same results. I had gave up and was back to running Windows 7 when I stumbled on to a Forum Post by a gamer saying he had found the end all to the Linux Distro Hoppings at it ran all his games. So I began to search just for things related to what he had said, searching websites, forums, and youtube. If it is a good thing you can find a handful of people that will hate it on Youtube. I grabbed the download for what I needed - the Poster said to get Solus Budgie 3.9999 not anything else "Solus Budgie 3.9999" in huge bold font. He was serious about it.
I am not sure how long I have been using it now, but I have 1 desktop and 3 laptops in my house running it.
And the guy that was MINT ONLY he has it running on 1 of his laptops.
I have installed it on 2 laptops for friends.
All those peripherals I mentioned they all work, Steelseries keyboards / Steelseries head set and mouse / 2 Logitech gaming mice on all our systems / both my headsets - - oh and as an added Bonus I have not needed to do anything extra to get Solus to work seamlessly with my smart home and Google Chromecast.
Solus default installed any drivers I did need automatically after plugging it in and restarting with it plugged in or in the case of smart home and the chromecast it was a matter of giving the command and it installed needed stuff on the run and started working straight up. KDE connect works flawlessly as well.

In closing I like everything about my experience with Solus so far / the look eye candy of install with customization I give it a 9, you have to leave for better / my first hand experience getting the things to run I use, I give an 8 due to limited items / the ability of a user with zero experience to use it with no help or tips I give it a 10

OH P.S. - and an after market WiFi adapter was plug and play as well,
I have not needed to use Terminal for anything but an after market broadcom wireless adapter and found the walk through for that here in the Solus Forums.

kyrios

You should look there, it's Solus here, not Ubuntu/LinuxMint 😛

Kepos

kyrios thx for your kind answer and for providing a link to further information. 😃

Kepos

[deleted] So you say, there is no way to install latest amdgpu-pro on Solus?

Justin Yeah, I'll definitely run a test on a seperate HD, but honestly, all those --ignore-safety scripts with third-party software installation scared me a lot.

Justin

You'll be surprised how easy Solus is if you try. As for PPAs Solus doesn't maintain any, this is up to external community members.

Fatih19

Kepos Nope. Your best hope is that the Fedora dev team finish packaging ROCm and then maybe you can request Solus package for ROCm in the dev tracker.

Kepos

Fatih19 thx for mentioning it, but waiting for drivers to get compatible is what I have been doing the last months. The other week I found an advice how-to install latest AMD driver to LM19.1. and I'm glad about.

fishyman65712 Thank you for the quite huge insight on Solus distro. Well, currently I'm on a split-system with Win7 (1/4) and LM19.1 (3/4) , while I just change SSD's in a switch-drive bay. I like to have the windows data close by without the need for external data storage. First use is gaming, where I lean massive on Steam and the new Proton advancement, which is quite impressive. Second use is the usual browsing and personal home office work. Third smaller part is programming/modding/graphics when a game fascinates me enough to start some projects or I'm up for some more C# lessons with MonoDevelop or Visual Studio Code.

I started with Windows a long time ago, but after Microsoft changed their patching and upgrading policy my enthusiasm ended with Windows 7. Then I started searching for an alternative where I could keep my hardware and found Linux quite intersting. I tested several distributions, but the most drivers and/or games are tested for mainstream Ubuntu, which I still count for my best option to stay as close as possible just because it works. Linux Mint is quite close as it is based on Ubuntu, so games, drivers and apps are easy to use for me. Cinnamon desktop is quite nice and highly adoptable as I like it. Getting the latest AMD driver with Vulkan running is currently my main focus. The question about which distribution to run is a matter about aesthetics and stability after this point is solved. After crashing some installations with avoidable failures, I started to keep root and /home on different drives, so I do not loose any data any more. I'm not too receptive changing my working system, but due to my switch-drive it is easy to start a new testbed with root on a new HD, if my #1 prerequisite (AMD driver) is somehow possible. The open driver is quite good and I used it with OpenGL for my steam games for a while, but it is inconvenient to micro every single game just to get it running somehow.

Personal office use and getting hardware like printer, scanner or other stuff running was no big deal on Mint/Ubuntu and I'm not affraid to use Terminal orders for installation or adjustment. Lately, if I can't get a feature running, I can lean on my still availible Win7, no matter that I do not longer patch this one. Not my highest priority so far, anyhow it's interesting to read about this is covered with Solus. Some other distributions started a similar way, like Manjaro with it's unique graphics driver tool, but this is mostly limited toward Nvidia cards.

What really shocked me was reading about installation scripts to bring third-party stuff running on Solus. I really like to have a stable main system and reading about --ignore safety parts just gets me nervous. On a testbed I do not have a problem at all, but I really like the idea behind LTS and having a reliable and stable main system. So, testing Solus = yes, changing my main system = unlikely but not impossible.

Budgie is a quite impressive desktop, a little more slender as cinnamon in my eyes, but still offering huge number of options to alter and change look and feel so one is able to build the linux system he likes best. Therefore I started to adopt the Budgie desktop on my Mint base for some testing...I still have the idea to just change color on my car...probably also change the steering wheel, if one likes the comparison, while keeping the engine and the cozy seats. Ubuntu Budgie on the other side offers quite the same, but I do not like their software repository plus they are using an older version of Budgie, so far I do lean on the LTS version. But, Ubuntu will offer me the possibility to install latest AMD driver with Vulkan. Patching a basic Budgie on my Mint with their ppa has worked, but brought some incompatibilites while testing. I'm thinking about testing their non-LTS version with newer Budgie, but only on a testbed. There is also a Manjaro version offering Budgie desktop, but so far I have seen, they are also using an older version and I'm also not sure about getting the latest AMD driver with Vulkan running with it.

Long writing, but I'd like to respond to your kind insight on your choice.

brent

fishyman65712 I share your view of Solus' 'competition.' Mint and Ubu were amateur hour to me (not original nor sleek) and I thought I'd wander back to (gasp) W7.

I was just starting to understand "the forks" in the linux game.

Then came a fiercely independent distro that was beautiful. Creators a little sassy, protective. Made me smile. Not really a fork. Like you it was home. Oh, yeah, after I broke it, 86'd it. torpedoed it, fubar'd it, annihilated it, then simply just messed it up..and you keep re-installing the hard way, forsaking all your wonderful settings, and generally have no idea what you did,

that's where you reach the fishyman state of "what if I just leave it alone?"

Almost there...

fishyman65712

Good Luck with your Journey where ever it may lead.
I have equal luck with Intel using onboard graphics / as well AMD with onboard graphics.
My reason for staying with the Solus was all things I wanted to work, just worked with out any extra effort by me.