The Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.10 distribution is now available, providing a pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tiled compositing manager. The distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 25.10, created with an eye on both experienced GNU/Linux users and beginners who want to try an environment with a tiled window manager without the need for lengthy configuration. Builds for amd64 and arm64 (Raspberry Pi) architectures are available for download.
The distribution environment is built on the basis of Sway, a compositing manager that uses the Wayland protocol and is fully compatible with the i3 tiled window manager, as well as the Waybar panel, the PCManFM-GTK3 file manager, and utilities from the NWG-Shell project, such as the Azote desktop wallpaper manager, the nwg-drawer full-screen application menu, the nwg-wrapper program for displaying the contents of scripts on the screen (used to display hotkey hints on the desktop), the nwg-look GTK theme, cursor, and font settings manager, and the Autotiling script, which automatically composes the windows of open applications in the manner of dynamic tiled window managers.
The distribution includes both GUI programs such as Firefox, Qutebrowser, Audacious, Transmission, Libreoffice, Pluma and MATE Calc as well as console applications and utilities such as Musikcube music player, MPV video player, Swayimg image viewer, for viewing PDF documents Zathura, Neovim text editor, Ranger file manager and others.
Another feature of the distribution is the complete rejection of the use of the Snap package manager, all programs are delivered in the form of regular deb packages, including the Firefox web browser, which is installed using the official Mozilla Team PPA repository. The distribution installer is based on the Calamares framework.
The new release features a switch to the Ubuntu 25.10 package base, the swaykbdd component for setting individual keyboard layouts for each window, minor optimizations to system scripts, and the fixing of a number of minor bugs.
Source: opennet.ru
