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Buddies and builders of the Budgie Desktop home computing environment #linux #DesktopEnvironment #OpenSource

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aerynOS @aerynos.com · 05/10/2026
aerynOS volatile stream notice Thanks to @joshuastrobl.social and @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social, Budgie 10.10.3 has now made it into the aerynOS volatile stream for testing! github.com/aerynOS/reci... #BudgieDesktop #aerynOS #linux #BuddiesofBudgie
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budgie-desktop: Add at v10.10.3 and dependencies by JoshStrobl · Pull Request #2710 · aerynOS/recipes
aerynOS New Package Pull Request Summary This pull request introduces Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 to aerynOS, including with a pkgset with some recommended applications, a branding package built off my ...
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 04/10/2026
Hot off the heels of #Budgie 10.10.3, working on an item for 10.10.4 since we already have some fixes lined up for it. Automatic hide & dock mode has been...quirky from the move between Budgie 10.9.x to 10.10.x, so this work is intended square away as much of that as possible! youtu.be/UlU262Yeg-I
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Budgie Desktop 10.10.4: Improvements To Panel Dock Mode and Auto Show / Hide
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Solus @getsolus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heya folks! It's sync day, and it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! This is a big day for @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Budgie Desktop users as 10.10 is now available for everyone! Read all about it on our forums: discuss.getsol.us/d/13014-week... #FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource - Evan
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 30/09/2026
I have now submitted for inclusion #Budgie Desktop from @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social to @aerynos.com 🥳 I fully expect that it will undergo thorough review and there'll be some fixes I need to do (new to packaging for #aerynOS specifically), but we're closer to the finish line!
Screenshot of budgie-desktop pull request against the aerynOS recipes repository on GitHub
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 28/09/2026
I've now updated the #Budgie Desktop stack to 10.10.3 in #Fedora 46 (rawhide). Will sanity check it on the nightly ISO and assuming all looks good, I'll merge it into Fedora 45 tomorrow and check if I need to file any exceptions to get it landed for the release.
Screenshot of Fedora Updates System (bodhi) with the various packages of budgie desktop (and externals like pocillo-gtk-theme) as "stable" in Fedora 46 rawhide.
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We're excited to announce #Budgie 10.10.3! It adds favorites to Budgie Menu, brings back the Keyboard Layout applet, lets you choose your primary monitor, introduces free placement of desktop icons, improves our labwc integration, and more. buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-... #OpenSouce #Linux
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Budgie 10.10.3 Released
Budgie 10.10.3 is our third minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This release adds favorites to Budgie Menu, brings back the Keyboard Layout applet, lets you choose your primary monitor, introduc...
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 23/09/2026
For the last week or so, I have been secretly cooking up a big change for Budgie Desktop View for the upcoming #Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 release. Arbitrary desktop icon positioning is finally arriving! YouTube: youtu.be/hwBdpU55mbY MakerTube / PeerTube: makertube.net/w/61ouCSQb6A... #OpenSource
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Upcoming Feature for Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 - Arbitrary Desktop Icon Positioning
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 15/09/2026
I know quite a few folks have been asking for it and well, here it is (coming soon). #Budgie Desktop packaged up and running on #aerynOS. Budgie 10.10.3 is right around the corner, so I'll be holding off on submitting it until we ship that within the next couple weeks.
Budgie Desktop shown running on a ThinkPad T15p, with Budgie Control Center open to its About page; Konsole is running with neofetch, moss, and labwc versions specified, and Budgie's Raven is open.

Picture taken directly from the front.Budgie Desktop shown running on a ThinkPad T15p, with Budgie Control Center open to its About page; Konsole is running with neofetch, moss, and labwc versions specified, and Budgie's Raven is open.

Photo of laptop taken at about a 45 degree angle.
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 11/09/2026
Favorites are FINALLY coming to Budgie Menu in #BudgieDesktop 10.10.3. Great option for those of you that use the legacy / "simple" tasklist 🥳 I'm still polishing up the code, but I'll be submitting it over the weekend and will be in the upcoming 10.10.x release. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPsG...
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Upcoming Feature for Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 - Favorites in Budgie Menu
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 30/04/2026
Tomorrow (May 1st) is a holiday, which means free day to stream Budgie 11 dev! Work continues on wl_output support in #BudgieDesktop Services, which I've made good progress on generalizing interfaces for off-stream. Live 1500 EEST at youtube.com/live/MxA... #OpenSource #Linux
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Building Budgie 11 #6: Finding Common Ground on Outputs (Pt. 2) - YouTube
In this stream, we will be continuing our work on Budgie Desktop services, making more general interfaces (with wlroots-specific derived classes) and teachin...
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 27/04/2026
VOD for 5th installment in Building #BudgieDesktop 11 streams is now up at www.youtube.com/watc... Good progress made on generalizing a lot of the "meta" interfaces, state management, output manager, etc. Was a deeper rabbit hole than I expected!
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Building Budgie 11 #5: Finding Common Ground on Outputs
In this stream, we will be teaching Budgie Desktop Services to speak wl_output (via KWayland), the foundational Wayland protocol every compositor implements. It's the groundwork the Budgie 11 shell (panels, notifications, and more) needs to land on the right displays, whatever compositor is undernea
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 25/04/2026
It's been a couple months since my last #BudgieDesktop 11 stream (oof) but the sun is here, energy is back, and so are the streams! Tomorrow at 15:00 EEST: "Building Budgie 11 #5: Finding Common Ground on Outputs" youtube.com/live/pmTfDJ8... #OpenSource #Linux
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Building Budgie 11 #5: Finding Common Ground on Outputs
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 27/03/2026
I had a great time talking to Brodie on Tech over Tea a few weeks back, went out today. Thanks Brodie for having me on!
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#317 Budgie Desktop Is In For A Qt Future | Joshua Strobl
Today we have Joshua Strobl of the Budgie project and Buddies of Budgie back on the show to talk about the projects move over to the Qt library and KDE frameworks as well as the Budgie 11 future. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: ht
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 is here! We have significantly improved the labwc bridge, introduced better app matching in Icon Tasklist, scaling fixes, and a whole lot more. Check it out at buddiesofbudgie.org/... #OpenSource #Linux #BudgieDesktop
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Budgie 10.10.2 Released
Budgie 10.10.2 is our second minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This release adds further improvements to our labwc bridge, improves application matching in Icon Tasklist, general stability fixes, and more!
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 06/03/2026
Gonna go live tomorrow at 1300 UTC for some last minute fixes (IconTasklist PR), release prep, and the actual release of Budgie 10.10.2! Tune in for a peak behind the curtain at
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Releasing Budgie 10.10.2: Behind The Curtain - YouTube
In this stream, I'll be fixing some last minute items, preparing Budgie 10.10.2, writing the post, and getting it shipped!Buddies of #Budgie: https://buddies...
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 releases this Saturday! Chirp #7 covers the latest: dialog fixes, Crystal Dock support, Icon Tasklist app matching improvements, and more. buddiesofbudgie.org/... #OpenSource #Linux #BudgieDesktop
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Chirp #7: Dialog Fixes, Crystal Dock Support, and App Matching Improvements
Dialog focus fixes, Crystal Dock background support, Icon Tasklist app matching rework, and a wave of under-the-hood polish ahead of Budgie Desktop 10.10.2.
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Chirp #6 is out! Show Desktop functionality rework, HiDPI fixes, session crash squashed, IconTasklist fixes, and still more improvements to come! Clear skies ahead for an upcoming Budgie 10.10.2. Read more at buddiesofbudgie.org/... #Budgie #BudgieDesktop #OpenSource #Linux
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Chirp #6: Clear Skies Ahead for Budgie Desktop 10.10.2
Fixes for Icon Task List, HiDPI scaling, and Show Desktop land ahead of our planned Budgie Desktop 10.10.2. Meanwhile, budgie-session v1.0.1 ships to resolve session crashes.
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Chirp #5 is out! We sat down to plan the road ahead for Budgie 11, got live panel configuration working, and polished up 10.10. buddiesofbudgie.org/... Take care :)
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Chirp #5: Budgie 11 Priorities, Panel Config, and 10.10 Polish
We map out Budgie 11 priorities and begin building panel configuration, while Budgie 10.10 picks up OSD fixes, Icon Task List improvements, and labwc bridge refinements.
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 11/02/2026
I will be live Wednesday (today for me :P) at 1530 UTC for more Budgie 11 work! I will be implementing configuration in our panel for budgie-shell, particularly: screen edge, per-region extension lists, and per-output (more to come there later). youtube.com/live/Pjk7sMz...
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Building Budgie 11 #4: A Panel Never Forgets
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
New Chirp is out. Budgie 10 gets independent compositor theming, Budgie 11's panel evolves with a new QML loader, and Magpie gains focus methods. Oh, and we redesigned the website. buddiesofbudgie.org/... Happy coding :)
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Chirp #4: Panels, Policies, and Progress
Theme configuration improvements land in Budgie 10, the Budgie 11 panel gains a QML loader, and Magpie picks up focus method support.
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 03/02/2026
Tomorrow (Wed. Feb 4th) at 1530 UTC I will be live again for more Magpie development for #Budgie 11. I will be doing some (necessary) code cleanup / re-organization, taking a look at #Qt6 QKeySequence, and Mir / Miral API exploration!
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Building Budgie 11 #3: Getting Qt with Key Sequences & Mir API Exploration - YouTube
Today's work will be centered around some much needed code cleanup and refactoring, taking a look at #Qt6 QKeySequence and potentially leveraging that for ou...
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Bit of a lighter one for this week, but still solid updates across Budgie 10 and Budgie 11 regardless! Read about it at buddiesofbudgie.org/... and have a great week :)
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Chirp #3: A New Release, Magpie Configuration Strikes Back
This week we released Budgie 10.10.1 and implemented keybinds into our Magpie compositor.
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 31/01/2026
Going to be live again tomorrow (Sunday, February 1st) at 1100 UTC for more #Budgie 11 Magpie development. Working on getting VOD from today uploaded separately (some audio tweaks and trimming), so keep an eye on my channel for that.
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Building Budgie 11: Adding Configuration to our Wayland Compositor (Day 2) - YouTube
Day 2 of integrating KConfig support into Magpie, the Mir-based compositor for the next generation of the Budgie desktop environment. Today's work will focus...
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Our first minor release of #Budgie 10.10 series is out with Budgie 10.10.1! This release improves stability, fixes bugs, expands on our labwc support, and more! Read more at buddiesofbudgie.org/... #OpenSource #Linux
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Budgie 10.10.1 Released
Budgie 10.10.1 is our first minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This release improves stability, fixes bugs, expands on our labwc support, and more!
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 30/01/2026
Live tomorrow (Saturday, Jan 31st) at 1100 UTC. The goal is simple: Integrating KConfig for configuration into our Mir-based Wayland compositor.
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Building Budgie 11: Adding Configuration to our Wayland Compositor - YouTube
In this stream, the primary objective is to integrate KConfig support into Magpie, the Mir-based compositor for the next generation of the Budgie desktop env...
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Chirp 2 is live! 🐦 This week, we have released Budgie Control Center 2.1.0, added "sloppy" focus support for Budgie 10.10.1, refreshed our website, continued our work on Budgie 11, and more! Read more at buddiesofbudgie.org/... #OpenSource #Linux #Budgie
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Chirp #2: Getting "Sloppy" with Window Focus and Experimental with Mir
This week we released Budgie Control Center 2.1.0, added sloppy focus support for the upcoming Budgie 10.10.1, and refreshed our website. Meanwhile, we've begun early exploration with Mir for Budgie 11 and started refinements to the shell's panel logic.
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Did you know we’re on OpenCollective? Developing Budgie 11 will mean capitalizing on your support for CI/CD and hardware in ways we didn't during 10.x. Donations are appreciated and thank you to all that have donated thus far! ❤️
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Buddies of Budgie - Open Collective
Developers of the Budgie Desktop, a feature rich and modern desktop environment for Linux.
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 18/01/2026
Been going through the Mir docs, building out the next iteration of the @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Magpie compositor. Just in a matter of a few hours we went from no compositor to one that is able to run budgie-panel. Looking forward to continuing to iterate on it! #Linux #OpenSource
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Time for the first Chirp article! This one details new Budgie Control Center settings and 10-series maintenance, alongside Budgie 11 progress regarding our approach to configuration, architectural foundations, and early bootstrapping. buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/chirp-1 #BudgieDesktop #OpenSource
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Chirp #1: Bootstrapping Budgie 11
This Chirp details new Budgie Control Center settings and 10-series maintenance, alongside Budgie 11 progress regarding our approach to configuration, architectural foundations, and early bootstrappin...
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 18/01/2026
Small beginnings: #Budgie 11 panel in Qt6 and QML, leveraging LayerShellQt. The code will looking nothing like this probably in a matter of days, but fun to iterate nonetheless!
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Right, the one you really have been waiting for. Let's talk #Budgie 11 and how we plan on improving communication going forwards. buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-o...
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State of the Budgie: 2025 In Review and Cranking Budgie Up To 11
2025 was a year of significant progress for Budgie Desktop, as we finalized much of our efforts in our Wayland migration, to bring Budgie 10 to a close and enable us to focus our efforts on Budgie 11....
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Budgie 10.10 is here! 🚀 This release marks our official migration from X11 to Wayland. It’s a landmark moment that rounds out over a decade of the Budgie 10 series, allowing us to now put our focus towards Budgie 11. buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-... #BudgieDesktop #Wayland #Linux
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Budgie 10.10 Released
Budgie 10.10 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, marking our first release to migrate Budgie from X11 to Wayland. This release series brings to a close just over a decade of Budgie 10 de...
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 03/01/2026
Took some work and testing, but I have CI/CD validated using the forge that all the @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Budgie 11 bits will be on (as well as something else I'm cookin up) 🚀
Screenshot of Zen Browser with two webpages opened side-by-side in split view. Left panel shows the CI/CD with a successful build of budgie-desktop-services (shows cmake / ninja output), right panel shows the repo on the Forgejo with a green check mark next to latest commit.
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🧵 Got a #Budgie 11 Kickoff meeting scheduled for the team for this Sunday 🎉 2026 is gonna be a great year for Buddies of Budgie, just as soon as we put this pesky 10.10 (truly the last major B10 release) in the rear-view mirror! (It's shipping in next Fedora and Ubuntu Budgie after all.)
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just tagged a new preview build of Budgie 10.10 (10.10-preview.2) with various bug and crash fixes, some missed adaptations for renamed desktop files, improvements for running Electron apps, and improvements for running in virtualized environments. #OpenSource github.com/BuddiesOfBud... - Joshua
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Release Budgie 10.10-preview.2 · BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop
This release of Budgie Desktop is a preview (non-final) release of Budgie 10.10, supporting only Wayland. This should NOT be packaged for stable repositories, rather it should strictly be shipped i...
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 18/11/2025
In anticipation of #Budgie 10.10's release and shipping in #Fedora 44, I have submitted a Change Proposal for its inclusion! I will be packaging up the components this week for rawhide 🚀 fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes... BIg thanks to @conan-kudo.bsky.social for the help with the proposal 👏
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Changes/Budgie 10.10 - Fedora Project Wiki
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The end to the saga of #Budgie 10.10 development is near! We just put out Budgie 10.10-preview.1, intended for packagers (e.g. Fedora and Ubuntu) to start shipping in preparation for their releases next year. 🎉 github.com/BuddiesOfBud...
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Release Budgie 10.10-preview.1 · BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop
This release of Budgie Desktop is a preview (non-final) release of Budgie 10.10, supporting only Wayland. Packager Notes: This should NOT be packaged for stable repositories, rather it should stric...
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
While we are hard at work wrapping up features & functionality for Budgie 10.10 (so we can FINALLY move on to 11), we have just put out a Budgie 10.9.3 release to align with changes in GNOME 49.x. Release notes available at github.com/BuddiesOfBud... Coming to a distro near you!
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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 19/03/2025
ICYMI: Fedora Budgie 42 and Fedora Budgie Atomic 42 will ship with Discover. It is very speedy and plays well with the atomic image (in that it doesn't have silverblue hardcoded as the rpm-ostree rebase image and result in users being surprised by a GNOME desktop after they upgrade!) 😁
Screenshot of Budgie Desktop on Fedora Budgie 42 Beta showing Discover software center's home view.
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
2024 was a pivotal year for #BudgieDesktop, with our Budgie 10.9 release series and our focus on our move to Wayland. Time to dive into our State of the Budgie to recap our efforts in 2024 and the goals for 2025. buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-o... #OpenSource #Linux
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State of the Budgie: 2024 In Review and Goals for 2025
2024 was a pivotal year for Budgie Desktop, with our Budgie 10.9 release series and our focus on our move to Wayland. Time to dive into our State of the Budgie to recap our efforts in 2024 and the goa...
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Buddies of Budgie @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Recently landed an MR from team member David (fossfreedom) that makes it so that those of us internally dogfooding the Wayland experience of Budgie 10 no longer need to stare at blank screens or write our own scripts to fire off swaybg! Still plenty of work to do of course :) youtu.be/tP9uy0OBUyQ
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Background switching under Wayland via Budgie Control Center
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