Budgie was started by Ikey Doherty for Solus. So quick background on Ikey, he does things because he thinks he has a better way of doing it, and he doesn't do it for others so much as himself.

So we could probably say Budgie came about because Ikey wanted a desktop that suited him and his new (at the time) Solus project. And now it just goes on.

He's at it again too. His work on Aeryn OS is all about building his own tools. He reinvents the wheel because it's what suits him.

I dunno but Budgie could very well be an alternate DE for Linux Mint for those longing for Qtness.

Why does everyone in this thread hate KDE?

My headcanon is that they wanted to offer a modern middle ground between GNOME and KDE Plasma. Perhaps we might refer to it as "COSMIC before COSMIC" but without:

• being built on Rust,
• Wayland-first design,
• easy and well-thought-out tiling on demand.

Asked myself the same, played with it on a spare laptop and I liked that it was sort of gnome with Windows UI, replaced it with xfce after they started using kde stuff more and more, yuck.

I think Budgie is meant for Windows 10 fans. Raven sidebar looks like action center in Windows 10.

I am sorry if my English is bad.

budgie 11's move to qt will sorta 'fill a gap' between lxqt and kde.

for people who won't budge from their current DEs, budgie will help them with that

I used budgie quite some time ago, probably 8 years ago or so. I had an older, low power laptop at the time and budgie worked well on it. It was gnome-adjacent, and I like gnome, so I used it until the lappy died.

Hope that helps.

They sell computers, perhaps they just want to be a unique.

i tried it out a few years ago and liked it. it was more responsive than gnome and not as overloaded with settings like kde while looking more modern than cinnamon. i couldnt use it as a daily driver though because i own a tablet like device and touch was not really supported at that time at least.