The Budgie Welcome Screen application is a friendly tool that is used to greet the new users to Linux upon their first login after installation. This tool presents a welcome window right there at your Desktop from where you are displayed with some quick shortcuts for software installations, updates, default settings, features, etc.
Here at Ibmi Media, as part of our Server Management Services, we regularly help our Customers to perform related Linux system application configuration queries.
In this context, we shall look into the procedure of installing the Budgie Welcome Screen application on a Linux Mint 20 system.
To install the Budgie Welcome Screen application on your Linux Mint 20 machine, you need to run the following command:
$ sudo snap install ubuntu-budgie-welcome --classic
Note: Before executing this command, you must have the Snap Daemon installed on your system.
Otherwise, you can install Snap with the help of the command that follows:
$ sudo apt-get install snap
This application will take some time to get installed via the Snap Store after which you will receive the success message
To remove the Budgie Welcome Screen application from your Linux Mint 20 system, you have to execute the following command:
$ sudo snap remove ubuntu-budgie-welcome
This article covers the process of installing and removing the Budgie Welcome Screen application on a Linux Mint 20 system. In fact, the Budgie Desktop environment is popular because of its simplicity yet user-friendly and easy to use. Budgie uses GNOME technologies at its core and is integrated very well with the GNOME stack.