Budgie desktop shell is down after 2025 Feb update (openSUSE Tumbleweed)

[Citizen839X]

A very unstable desktop environment (X11), even more than KDE, even under openSUSE where, fortunately, prevention is at first place with the possibility to pre install multiple DM.
Switched back to XFCE where even Window Shuffler doesn't work anymore due to Buggy desktop. Buggy, that's a better name to classify this and the shameful devs that I'm wondering what they do with the community incentives.
With Wayland is even worst. Like Dante's inferno: "abbandonate ogni speranza, voi che entrate".

Other broken things since ages:

Haste applet - it froze the panel in the past, before the actual black out, I was able to recover through Task Manager only, killing the process.
Global menu - once you apply it on the upper panel (but no matter what panel in term of positioning) it suddenly close the entire process.
A forced log out screen may occasionally occur.

I write this down for the record, in order to advise (especially the newbie) to avoid this desktop environment like pest if you are looking about stability, of course. Fell free to close this and put whatever label, I don't care.

Have a good day.

[vyvir]

sudo zypper rm -u budgie-extras
sudo zypper al budgie-extras
budgie-panel --reset --replace &
sudo zypper in vala-appmenu-plugin-appmenu budgie-appmenu-applet
echo 'GTK_MODULES="appmenu-gtk-module"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
Reboot, configure your panels and reboot again.
This should get you a stable setup. Avoid installing any additional applets. They come from the budgie-extras package, which makes the whole desktop go haywire.

[vyvir]

Nevermind. Things still go haywire even when you run it stock, I forgot.
Yeah it's safe to say it's time to bail on Budgie.