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I guess Ubuntu's popularity may result in Mir winning out over Wayland? Or upstreams supporting Wayland primarily but most users actually using Canonical-patch
by sixbrx 11y ago
I guess Ubuntu's popularity may result in Mir winning out over Wayland? Or upstreams supporting Wayland primarily but most users actually using Canonical-patched Mir adaptations of upstreams? Things could get weird.
- tbrock 11y agoIt would be so much better if Canonical focused their efforts on Wayland. Mir is just such an awful thing for Linux in general. I use Linux and OSX desktops every day and catching up to OSX or Windows in terms of everyday usability via reasonable graphics performance is basically impossible without the ecosystem working together. That being said, Ubuntu can do whatever they want, it's their money and resources and they can sink it into Mir if they choose but wow, what a waste.
- roninb 11y agoYou've said that Mir is an awful thing, but you never explained why.
- bkor 11y agoThe examples are not about Ubuntu users. Almost all are about Ubuntu being used as a server or an instance. As such, the display server won't even be installed. Some (low quality) Dutch website said that using the same method a pressrelease could be written that there are more Windows users than people on the planet :-P IMO, Ubuntu is based upon Debian, so Debian is the biggest one :-P Note that there's some debate on the accuracy of some of the examples. That they used it in the past or used it partly doesn't mean an entire company uses it now.
- alexnewman 11y agoThe big loss in mir is ubuntu itself. They had some of the finest people working on it, and now many of them are leaving to go to google. Ubuntu lost focus with the phone.