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.
All Ubuntu Budgie releases and desktopsWhat 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 24.10 default.
Questions about this target
Is this an official Ubuntu Budgie image?
Yes. Launches boot from OpenFactory's verified copy of official Ubuntu Budgie media. The catalog records where each source came from and when it was verified, and visitor sessions never modify the stored image.
Do changes persist between sessions?
No. Every launch runs on a fresh overlay over an immutable base image, and the machine state is discarded when the session ends. No visitor sees another visitor's changes, and every session starts from the same clean Ubuntu Budgie 24.10 default.
Can I get a customized Ubuntu Budgie instead of the stock demo?
Yes. The OpenFactory builder turns this release into your own image: pick packages, services, users, and hardening, then build it, test it in a browser VM, and download the result for real hardware.