Ubuntu Budgie 23.10 default

About Ubuntu Budgie

Ubuntu Budgie is the official flavor pairing Ubuntu with the Budgie desktop, an environment that originated in the Solus project and emphasizes a clean, modern layout with an applet-driven panel and the Raven sidebar for notifications and quick settings. The flavor's maintainers add considerable polish of their own, shipping a collection of optional applets, layout presets that reshape the desktop toward different conventions, and careful theming, so users can rearrange the furniture without hunting through third-party extensions. Beneath the surface it is ordinary Ubuntu: the shared package archive over APT, Snap availability, the April and October cadence, and long-term-support releases for stability-minded users. Budgie sits between heavyweight desktops and minimal window managers, drawing on GNOME technologies without adopting GNOME's workflow. The flavor suits people who want something contemporary but conventional. A short session in an OpenFactory browser VM reveals whether Budgie's balance suits you.

What happens when you press Try now

The button opens the OpenFactory console in a new tab and boots a fresh Ubuntu Budgie virtual machine from OpenFactory's verified source media. The session renders directly in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to install on your computer.

Each visit gets its own machine with a fresh overlay over an immutable base image. Files, settings, and desktop changes behave normally inside the session and are discarded when it ends, so every visitor starts from the same clean Ubuntu Budgie 23.10 default.

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