Available release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 26.04 LTS distribution, which provides pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway mosaic composite manager. The distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 26.04, created with an eye on both experienced GNU/Linux users and beginners who want to try the environment of tiled window managers without the need for a long setup. For downloading assemblies have been prepared for amd64, arm64 and Raspberry Pi computers.
The distribution environment is built on the basis of Sway – a composite manager that uses the Wayland protocol and is fully compatible with mosaic i3 window manager, as well as the Waybar panel, the Thunar file manager, and utilities from the NWG-Shell project, such as the desktop wallpaper manager Azote, the full-screen application menu nwg-drawer, utilities for displaying the contents of scripts on the screen nwg-wrapper (used to display hotkey hints on the desktop), manager for setting up GTK themes, cursor and fonts nwg-look and the script Autotiling, which automatically composes windows of open applications in the manner of dynamic tiled window managers.
The distribution includes programs with both a graphical interface, such as Firefox, Qutebrowser, Audacious, Transmission, Libreoffice, Pluma and MATE Calc, and console ones applications and utilities, such as the Musikcube music player, the MPV video player, the Swayimg image viewer utility, the Zathura PDF document viewer utility, the Neovim text editor, the Ranger file manager and others.
Another feature of the distribution is the complete refusal to use the Snap package manager; all programs are supplied in