The release of the Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.04 LTS distribution is available, offering a pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tiling window manager. This distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, designed for both experienced GNU/Linux users and newcomers wishing to explore a tiling window manager environment without the need for extensive configuration. Builds for amd64 and Raspberry Pi 3/4 are available for download.
The distribution's environment is based on Sway — a compositing manager that uses the Wayland protocol and is fully compatible with the i3 tiling window manager, as well as the Waybar panel, PCManFM-GTK3 file manager, and utilities from the NWG-Shell project, such as the desktop wallpaper manager Azote, fullscreen application menu nwg-drawer, screen output utility for script contents nwg-wrapper (used to display hotkey hints on the desktop), GTK theme, cursor, and font manager nwg-look, and the Autotiling script, which automatically arranges windows of open applications like dynamic tiling window managers.
The distribution includes both graphical applications such as Firefox, Qutebrowser, Audacious, GIMP, Transmission, LibreOffice, Pluma, and MATE Calc, as well as console applications and utilities like the music player Musikcube, video player MPV, image viewer Swayimg, PDF document viewer Zathura, text editor Neovim, file manager Ranger, and others.
Another feature of the distribution is the complete abandonment of the Snap package manager; all programs are provided as standard deb packages, including the Firefox web browser, for which the official PPA repository from the Mozilla Team is used. The installer of the distribution is based on the Calamares framework.
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