Every few months or years, a new desktop environment is born in the
Linux world, sometimes as an act of rebellion, also known as cutlery
(forking), sometimes in order to replace an outgoing technology, and
sometimes because. Several days ago, I came across Budgie, a new project
and the flagship desktop for the Evolve OS Linux distribution. In
general, Evolve OS is a brand new operating system. Rumors tell it has
some roots in Gentoo, Pardus and friends.
We are going to discuss the latter at a later time, but for now, it
is time to explore Budgie. It is based on Gnome, so it should not be a
complete stranger. Anyhow, baby steps, beta, so everything you see and
hear today must be taken with a big, fat disclaimer. Tested from a
Ubuntu PPA on an existing, running instance of Utopic.
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