Today I tested Budgie desktop in Zorin 18 live session.
It was not a good experience, got a lot of errors because of window shuffler and when I switched back to gnome, I was prompted every minute to send a bug report.
I haven't read about good experiences with installing Budgie DE here in the forum, so I'm interested if anyone had more luck and is satisfied with Budgie in Zorin?
For the best Budgie experience I would go Solus. In many years it was their flagship.
Maybe because if the Live Mode. When zorin is installed, it might be a better Experience.
I tried again with a fresh live session and this time I disabled the gnome extensions for the new user account before installing the budgie desktop, and it worked. Only libre office and font manager opened very slow.
Last time, I had also installed xfce4 beforehand, which may have been excessive for live session and only 8 GiB RAM.
I like the icon theme of budgie (Pocillo), the app for configuring the loginscreen, tilix and plank dock.
After switching back to the normal Gnome session, I was again prompted to send an error report to the Zorin developers.
I'm not sure what's so special with budgie. I wouldn't recommend the installation on Zorin core because of the conflicts. The number of newly installed packages was enormous - compared to other desktops.
Yesterday I tested Enlightenment and Mate in Zorin 18 live session. Enlightement made no problems and was somehow unique, I haven't seen such a desktop before. The screenshot tool with the integrated tools and the modules you can add to the desktop were new to me and interesting. It is highly configurable.
But the default look isn't mine.
Mate displayed an error regarding an indicator after each login.
I had tested XFCE and Cosmic some time ago in Zorin 18 live session, both without installation problems.
Now I have installed Enlightenment as a forth desktop on my Zorin 17 Lite VM. Very minimalistic at the moment, I need to explore how to use the new desktop.
I've tried running Enlightenment for a while off an on. My main issue with it is the documentation. I couldn't find most of what I wanted to do, without actually digging in myself and figuring out what's going on. Very frustrating. If you wanted a different type of Enlightenment experience, Bodhi is definitely interesting. At least their documentation leads you to the correct areas, but they forked off Enlightenment to make their Moksha desktop.
Yes, I agree. It requires proper training and strong nerves. Many of the functions are not easy to find. I liked Moshka better at first glance, but I was scared to add the Bodhi repo to Zorin to install the Moshka desktop or to build it from source with an offered script.
So that I can work on it more intensively, it is now permanently installed, but I can switch to another desktop at any time.
I'm going to test Bodhi Linux in a live session the next days.
Can the Moksha documentation be perused for Enlightenment? Like searching for Ubuntu 24.04 issues, regarding Zorin OS 18.
I think so, the desktops are very similar structured. Do you mean this site?
