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Date: 28 Apr 2025 02:51:51 GMT
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:30:01 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> Unity was their Gnome 3-like interface. Mir was what they unveiled to
> compete with Wayland. As for whether it would have been preferable,
> probably not. I imagine that it would have worked well with Unity, but
> not so much with other desktop environments. Canonical wouldn't have
> cared either.

Mir was quietly shelved in favor of GNOME 3 and  Mutter. Probably a wise 
decision. Mutter has a strange association for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNdnVVHfseA