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Since I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, I should be using Mir, which is the Ubuntu competitor to Wayland.

• rantanplan 10y ago
  I don't think it's going to compete with anything. Pretty much everyone supports(and if not they will) Wayland, so maintaining and supporting Mir will become moot. One of those things that you really can't understand why they sink money into it :(
  • yxhuvud 10y ago
    Most of the stack is still the same as Wayland, so the question is how much extra work support will require.
    • majewsky 10y ago
      Either it's sufficiently different to require extra support, or it's similar enough to not warrant its own existence.
• majewsky 10y ago
  Except that you're not. 16.04 is an LTS release, therefore Canonical delayed the Mir integration to 16.10.
• josteink 10y ago
  > Since I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, I should be using Mir You're wrong. That's Unity 8. And it's not the default DE (although you can apt-get install it).
  • ansible 10y ago
    Yes, I tried it with Ubuntu 16.04, and my system hung. I was looking forward to trying it out, because the Intel integrated graphics (HD4000) has bad tearing problems with application such as Firefox. That, combined with PulseAudio problems may force me to re-install 14.04. Though I need to keep using Win10 this week because of a CAD program anyway.