Xfce-Based Xubuntu Will Not Ship XMir For 13.10

[mrugiero]

Those remaining Ubuntu fans still are a lot more than any others distro fans according to Steam's HW survey. I'm perfectly happy with 12.04. No reason for me to "upgrade" till 2017 unless it's to something that's a lot better. There's plenty of time to evaluate.

Users and fans aren't the same thing, you know? According to Steam, I'm probably an Ubuntu user. I'm not at all an Ubuntu fan, right now.

The headline is "Xubuntu skips Mir this time around", not "Xubuntu ditches Mir all together", folks...

Well, it skips XMir, not Mir. Mir is not even an option right now, and it being an option for Xubuntu is not on them, but on XFCE devs.
On the "more good news", avoiding that extra layer is the better option for most users. Mir advantages are arguable at worst, but XMir advantages are near to or plainly non existent, and if existent, they are pretty much marginal. I still don't get why some people can't realize XMir is not a feature.