The release of the Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.10 distribution is available, offering a preconfigured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tiling window manager. The distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 25.10, designed with both experienced GNU/Linux users and newcomers in mind, who want to try a tiling window manager environment without the need for extensive setup. Builds are available for amd64 and arm64 architectures (Raspberry Pi).
The distribution environment is based on Sway—a compositor that uses the Wayland protocol and is fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager—as well as the Waybar panel, the PCManFM-GTK3 file manager, and tools from the NWG-Shell project, such as the Azote desktop wallpaper manager, the fullscreen application menu nwg-drawer, a script display utility nwg-wrapper (used to show hotkey hints on the desktop), the GTK theme, cursor, and font configurator nwg-look, and the Autotiling script that automatically arranges open application windows like dynamic mosaic window managers.
The distribution includes both graphical applications such as Firefox, Qutebrowser, Audacious, Transmission, Libreoffice, Pluma, and MATE Calc, as well as console applications and utilities like the Musikcube music player, MPV video player, Swayimg image viewer, Zathura PDF viewer, Neovim text editor, Ranger file manager, 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.
The new release transitions to the Ubuntu 25.10 package base, utilizes the swaykbdd component to set individual keyboard layouts for each window, includes minor optimizations to system scripts, and resolves a number of small issues.
Source: opennet.ru
