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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.
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/releases/tag/v10.10-preview.2
- Joshua
In anticipation of #Budgie 10.10's release and shipping in @fedora #Fedora 44, I have just submitted a Change Proposal for its inclusion! I will be packaging up the components this week to go into rawhide 🚀
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Budgie_10.10
BIg thanks to @neal for the help with the proposal 👏
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.
Budgie 10.10-preview.1 is (as the name implies) a preview release and features unfinished components like Budgie Display Configurator, but still excited to ship this! 🎉
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/releases/tag/v10.10-preview.1
Also don't think about checking what Budgie Display Services / Configurator are written in. 😉
While we are hard at work wrapping up #Budgie 10.10 (improved session launching, wrapping up display configuration, and some last little fixes), we have just put out a Budgie 10.9.3 release to align with changes in GNOME 49.x.
Release notes available at https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/releases/tag/v10.9.3
Coming to a distro near you! We'll also have Budgie Control Center 1.4.1 update that adds support for some modified media key schemas, so keep an eye out for that too.
- Joshua
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!) 😁
@w8l As a temporary workaround for this issue, please see https://sfalken.tech/posts/2025-03-16-budgie-desktop-workaround/
We currently have a breakage in Tumbleweed with the Budgie Desktop. This is a temporary workaround, so you can stay up and running, and still get updates. This is just a repackaging, from scratch, back to the 10.9.2 stable branch of the Budgie Desktop Existing Installations sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sfalken:/BuddiesofBudgie/openSUSE_Tumbleweed home:sfalken:BuddiesofBudgie sudo zypper ref sudo zypper dup --from home:sfalken:BuddiesofBudgie When zypper asks you to resolve conflicts, you’re going to want to select option 1 in each case, which will switch your packages from openSUSE:Tumbleweed to home:sfalken:BuddiesofBudgie
⚠️ PSA for openSUSE Tumbleweed Budgie
For anybody using Budgie on openSUSE Tumbleweed, please do not update your systems! The unfinished Budgie Wayland session, prerelease Magpie v1, and other related deps have begun landing in openSUSE Tumbleweed repos.
Here's a bug report about it:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1239655
A lot of this is packaged from Git master and is not ready for end-users yet. No distro should be shipping any of this yet, outside of development or nightly editions or branches.
Just updated a laptop and saw a very broken Budgie before my very eyes (see photo). SDDM also kept crashing every next boot afterwards until after all Budgie packages were purged.
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.
Landed a pull request today from team member David Mohammed (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 after login or manually write our own scripts to fire off swaybg!
It's small things like this that really help tie the experience together. Still plenty of work to do of course :)
Joshua Strobl 
SFaulken
Jules Enriquez
Campbell Jones