Budgie Is Worth a Try
Long time lurker, had to create an account to post about this though. Hey folks!<p>&quot;Budgie is based on GTK and the GNOME Shell.&quot;<p>To clarify, Budgie is NOT based on GNOME Shell. Budgie uses gnome-settings-daemon, GTK, and Mutter. It&#x27;s written with GTK, C, and Vala, whereas GNOME Shell is written in C, St, and JavaScript. Budgie 11 isn&#x27;t going to use any GNOME applications, its settings daemon, or Mutter. May not even use GTK (but rather EFL).<p>&quot;originally developed for the distro called Solus&quot;<p>It is still developed <i>for</i> Solus primarily.<p>&quot;Another nice feature is the extensions that are baked into the Budgie Extras app, shipped together with the desktop.&quot;<p>This is part of the Ubuntu Budgie experience, not Budgie itself.<p>&quot;These extensions are all developed by the maintainers of the desktop environment, so breakage is not really expected.&quot;<p>As the developer of Budgie, no these are not all developed by the maintainers. Many of them are developed by Ubuntu Budgie, whereas I use and develop on Solus. Breakage is to be expected and has occurred in the past, leading me to have to triage these issues filed against proper upstream rather than Ubuntu Budgie&#x27;s extras repo.<p>&quot;One of these extensions is a global menu that works wonderfully, and supports all my applications&quot;<p>This is not one which is developed by us (Solus).<p>&quot;The print screen keyboard shortcuts known from GNOME don&#x27;t work by default&quot;<p>Works under Solus.