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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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who is Budgie Desktop for? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by overcast@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I came to understand the philosophy and the kind of user, and specially workflow, most desktop environments try to appeal

however, I don’t fully understand Budgie, have you used it? what can you tell me about it?

I do know, that the open nature of GNU/Linux makes not everything having to “fill a gap”, there can be more than one project with similar goals and that’s okay I just want to know it better

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[–] doctorflynt@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

i tried it out a few years ago and liked it. it was more responsive than gnome and not as overloaded with settings like kde while looking more modern than cinnamon. i couldnt use it as a daily driver though because i own a tablet like device and touch was not really supported at that time at least.