I suspect the real reason Mir exists is that Canonical felt burnt dealing with Gnome and wanted control over the display stack as a consequence. But yeah, pret

I suspect the real reason Mir exists is that Canonical felt burnt dealing with Gnome and wanted control over the display stack as a consequence. But yeah, pretty much every technical reason they gave was a dud. The only real selling point as far as I can see is that it's pretty easy to use a SurfaceFlinger driver with it.