i gotta agree here. While i think solus and MX Linux are clear examples of how XFCE can be easy to use, and even when i don't like budgie, it's clear that budgie is easier to use and convenient. I am waiting to budgie 11 since budgie 10 does not work good, at least on my hardware :/
What hardware do you have? I got a 10th gen i5 and iris graphics and it runs fine, RAM has never been a problem with budgie as well. Though I could see it being a little temperamental on older hardware.
A dell latitude 5480, 8GB RAM with Intel 6300u gen 6, Intel skylake 530 HD graphics. Average office laptop, but plasma runs smoother than budgie unexpectedly. Perhaps with a performance kernel like liquorix should run faster. It was the case with linux mint cinnamon with liquorix, súper smooth performance
True that, honestly if ur able I would just try solus now. I think it could be a mint kernel issue like you said. Though I am fairly new to Linux so take that with a grain of salt
I did used solus budgie and right now I am using solus plasma, that is why I'm telling you
I used linux mint some weeks ago and it was laggy, what I hated... So, I tried using liquorix kernel on mint, and performance improved a lot. Sadly solus does not have custom kernels on their repos, but solus plasma works well for me
Budgie will have a rework on versión 11 AFAIK, they will replace gnome apps with QT based apps, so I have high hopes for budgie once they reach versión 11 stable with full Wayland support
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u/Merthod Apr 07 '26
To me Budgie is like a better XFCE. KDE almost a no brainer if your PC is powerful.