"a beautiful and lean user experience" Yes please! Especially the lean bit. Saves all those older laptops and PCs filling up the landfill. Do I really need som

"a beautiful and lean user experience" Yes please! Especially the lean bit. Saves all those older laptops and PCs filling up the landfill. Do I really need something more powerful than a Cray 1 to run a noddy spreadsheet or an R script? "Tightly integrated with the Unity shell, fulfilling the shell’s requirements while at the same time not dictating any sort of semantics up the stack." Does that mean that Linux graphical applications will 'just work' on the Unity/MIR platform? "we wanted to decouple the way the shell works on top of the display server from the application-facing protocol" That sounds like what I was asking above. E.g. LibreOffice will 'just work' "We are in active conversations with GPU vendors to enable Mir on those drivers/GPUs, too" oh-oh; nvidia not on board so back to Debian from the one after Wheezy... It will be fun to watch... possibly on the sidelines if they don't sort nvidia drivers