Ubuntu Sway Remix – This is Really Good!

41 thoughts on “Ubuntu Sway Remix – This is Really Good!”

• This video was released early for my patrons! https://patreon.com/thelinuxcast

• I'd imagine he may have set up the config like this so people don't just take his hard work and not use his distro, which i am totally okay with if that's his reasoning.

• i used to daily fedora sway spin and recently switched to ubuntu sway remix and i must say it feels much better. it is a complete workstation distro unlike fedora’s spin which includes bare minimum apps. kudos to devs

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMQbF4TMeBE

• This looks very interesting !

• tried using sway for 1 month now on my notebook and pretty happy with it! Deweloping with nvim and using this tiling manager feels good.

• I always wondered why no one had created a Openbox spin of Ubuntu for instance. Interesting distro! WM's ftw.

• Whats the package name of the packages packet manager?^^

• Good for nothing but satisfying enthusiasts !

• how to remove conky keybind front dekstop..,find every where not found solution

• The "rice" is nice but an Ubuntu base plus Wayland means it just is not an option.

• You are growing a beard! Wear it proud!

• What's the benefit of btrfs over lets say ext4 or Zfs?

• Wait a minute! You mean to tell me that Wayland + a window manager take up 1 GB of RAM on idle ?! What in the name of BLOAT?

• This looks pretty sharp, thanks for sharing!

• Why does it look like Manjaro all green and Black? there is zero transparency looks like it was drawn with a Crayon! Is this Manjaro?

• waybar using css as style configuration file makes it really easy to customize/personalize

• fyi if you do the partitioning yourself you can have btrfs calamares does the subvolumes @TheLinuxCast

• This seems great for anyone wanting to try out WMs. I'm probably going to try this myself. Would love to see a distro like this providing hyprland out of the box!

• Damn that's a beautiful pre-rice.

• To be honest, I kinda like the look of Sway on Ubuntu. I think you're on to something. Great work Matt!

• nice, i didn't even know i wanted this until you showed me.

• Sway is "ok" just like i3 is "ok" given both being very limited as a manual tilers, but Hyprland is the future.

• What is the bar situation on Wayland? 2:15

• most sane ubuntu ever

• I'm surprised to see that exists, but it also reminded me of OpenGEU which was a short-lived Ubuntu remix that provided GNOME applications on top of the Enlightenment window manager, and I tried a release which was based on Ubuntu 8.04.

  (8:31) I'm sure they would've installed Qt5ct to manage Qt 5 settings.

• @AlekseySamoilov quick question. What display manager do you use here? Cause i know fedora serica has this trouble with 37 about having to ship an xorg based dm instead instead of a wayland based one. Fedora 38 serica i believe has no xorg components cause the dm (i don't remember which one is) was the last holdout, now supports wayland so now the entire distro is wayland only sl thats pretty cool.

  Second question is can i use the setup with a different distro as base? Cause I'm really partial to rolling release so it would be cool if i can easily use this with a opensuse or debian sid or some other rolling distro base. ( Void maybe 😅)

• Not sure what the advantage is of this. That being said, I haven't used anything but xfce on debian for 10 years and am crabby about basically anything that isn't debian running xfce. Synaptic is a way of life, come at me bro.

• Nwg-displays is part of nwg-shell which is a pretty neat project for sway all done by one guy iirc

• This is me and my personal preference but I'm going to stick with the traditional desktop environment

• This looks so much better than Regolith. Regolith switched around way to much stuff with the config and made it harder to find stuff. The only thing I see bad about it so far is the green theme looks like Manjaro.

• The launcher is actually rofi, which runs just fine in sway

• Petition to make a ubuntu base netinstall .iso please🥺🥺

• UbuntuSway: The Sway Part is Good

• Yeah, this is what I would probably recommend to someone who is looking for a good out-of-the-box window manager distro. Just gotta watch out for those Wayland issues. Oh, and I agree that the config file setup is pretty crummy. But aside from that it seems like an excellent distro.

• Your videos keep getting better and better! This video is very entertaining and informative. I think that this is exactly how distro reviews should be made.

• Quick question – don't think you quite got there. In that sway config file you said that they want you to put your own mods in the 'User variables' section. But if that comes before the 'modes' section wouldn't those override whatever you just set?

• Nice video but your biased attitude towards snaps reveals a bit of ignorance. Every package manager on Linux has it's place and purpose. Just remember to show appreciation for all the options we have.

• great review Matt. This looks very cool.

• Ta for bringing this one to my attention, as I'd completely forgotten about it. I'm gonna have to put it on my 'to try' list. 🙂

• Putting the config files in etc as a default is really not the way Linux is intended to be used. It did say in the comment (at the top of the config you showed) to copy the file config to the .config/sway directory but really this should be done by default for a new user. So long as you maintain a copy of the default config files there is not need to run from etc like that. Window managers tend to appeal to the more technical users and this is glaringly bad practice. Also it would not take much to flesh out the comments around the includes to say what kind of settings are in each file, much more useful than having to dive into the documentation each time. It looks nice but not too well put together.

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