On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Olli Ries <[email protected]> wrote: > Mir does have nothing to do with Unity
Correct. This thread has diverged from the subject of Unity to general Canonical bashing. Unity is just another desktop environment, heavily based on Gnome3 (IMHO), but different in many important ways. Adding yet another desktop environment to the already large list is not that controversial. It's really a personal preference thing. I really like Gnome3, but I like Unity a little better. That's just my opinion. Mir is a display server (basically). Olli covered this description quite well. These are both just examples of Ubuntu creating competing options in the Linux world. Creating competing options is not new to the Linux world and has been done many, many times in the past, and will continue for many many years into the future. It is one of the defining characteristics of the Linux community in general. Though, so is argument over which competing option is better. :) Creating competing options is a common way to advance technology forward and spread ideas, often disruptively. Woefully incomplete list of examples of other arguments over competing options: GTK vs. QT Gnome vs. KDE Gnome3 vs. Gnome2 (hence spawning even more: Cinnamon/Mate) glibc vs ulibc Upstart vs systemd vs SysV etc. etc. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
