Dear Budgies,
I am considering to use Budgie as my desktop environment but I don’t want to throw away my current Gnome environment.
Is there a way to have Gnome and Budgie available on the same system (with the selector before opening the session for example) ?
Cheers
Hi @jeko!
Yes there is a way in UB and you’ve given the solution.
In the login box, click on the budgie icon and choose “Ubuntu”:
Enter your password… et voilà:
And vice versa to return to the Budgie environment:
Post scriptum
After that, I don’t think it’s a vanilla GNOME, just the layout. The best is still a dual-boot with a real GNOME distribution.
This is something I would definitely recommend.
There are always potential conflicts between multiple desktop environments. Its a great way just to test things out. But from an actual “get something done” point of view - I would keep distros separate via a side-by-side install (dual boot).
If you have common files between these then ensure you have a linked partition between the two - don’t have /home on a common partition.
So - for example on my UB project laptop I have a partition for 22.04, 24.04, 24.10 and a 24.10 for wayland development & testing, together with a separate partition for development files that are common across all boot scenario’s
Alright, thank you @jlb and @fossfreedom !
I will avoid having both DE for my system.
I will play with UB in a VM and if I feel it I will install UB as my main system.
P.S: I don’t know how to close the topic.
Take care !
I didn’t think it would come in handy so quickly, but the GNOME desk also provides a lifeline while you wait for help. 
It sure can be helpful in this situation.
