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If Ubuntu hadn't abandoned Gnome 2, I might never have switched to XMonad. So thank you, Ubuntu. I'm also a bit surprised that the author of the article finds

If Ubuntu hadn't abandoned Gnome 2, I might never have switched to XMonad. So thank you, Ubuntu. I'm also a bit surprised that the author of the article finds Mir to be a good idea. If they think a new display server is needed, they should contribute to Wayland, IMHO. Or at least fork Wayland if there would be irreconcilable differences, but as far as I can tell that's not the actual problem, they just want to do their own thing, which for a display server seems like the worst idea. Display servers are pretty fundamental low-level building blocks of a system, and for that reason one of the few that has resisted fragmentation in the Linux world. (I don't think fragmentation is bad per se, I just think it's bad for display servers.)

switch007 13y ago
I have a Macbook Air and when it first arrived, I thought I'd give Mac OS X a try. One day I lasted! I missed dear XMonad so, so much. Made me appreciate it a whole lot more. I originally switched because I was so sick of using the mouse to arrange my windows all the god. damn. time.
- scribu 13y ago
  I decided to give OS X an honest try after Ubuntu started crashing for no apparent reason. I wouldn't have lasted much either, if a friend hadn't pointed me to a neat little application called BetterTouchTool [1]. It lets you re-arrange windows using keyboard shortcuts. [1]: http://www.boastr.de/ http://www.boastr.de/