Ubuntu with Sway Wayland compositor

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This project is an attempt to provide a user-friendly desktop based on Sway - a popular tiling window manager (compositor) using the modern Wayland graphics stack. Ubuntu Sway Remix is great for both beginners who want to get familiar with the keyboard-oriented interface of tiling window managers and advanced GNU/Linux users who want a powerful, user-friendly and minimalistic interface. Ubuntu Sway contains popular console-based applications and utilities (CLI) along with graphical user interface (GUI) applications to meet the needs of most users.

Features:

• Solid Ubuntu base
• No Snap's!
• Very cool tiling Wayland compositor with amazing community
• Lightweight, easy to install, simple to use
• Popular console-based apps along with GUI apps
• Many customizations for comfortable use of Sway
• Ready to use out of the box

System requirements:

• CPU: Dual-core CPU with 1.6 GHz
• RAM: 1 GB
• Storage space: 20 GB
• GPU: Any Intel or AMD gpu (Nvidia cards required additional settings and NOT officially supported. See for details.)

Raspberry Pi:

• Supported models: 3b, 3b+, 4 and 400 (arm64 only)
• microSD card: 8 GB required
• Required good CPU heatsink

Installation:

• Download image from downloads page
• Create bootable USB stick using Etcher or similar tool
• Click "Run Calamares installer" in Ubuntu Sway Welcome app (on Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.04 the installer will run automatically after boot to desktop)
• Follow through installation process. Installation is pretty straightforward and takes 10-20 minutes depending on your storage device speed. Check out our FAQ for additional hints.
• NOTE: there are currently problems installing using partition encryption. Use at your own risk!

Development

Sources

• PPA repositories on Launchpad
• Development board
• Default configuration files
• Installer settings
• Raspberry Pi specific installer settings
• Metapackages
• Artwork
• ISO builder

How to Build

See build instructions in ISO builder page.

Contributing

• Join our Matrix or Telegram chat.
• Use the distribution on a daily basis, find and share solutions to problems you have.
• Submit bug reports in issues
• Help collecting improvement ideas in discussions
• Create pull requests with your ideas in our projects.
• Contribute to the documentation and help others in our chat