Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements

[TiberiusDuval]

Unity was a technical dead end, with weird concepts and never run well on any hardware. Its the software version of old people looking back to the 60s with nostalgia and saying "when I was young, everything was better".

I could get it run semiacceptably even on my old Lenovo T60....

[GizmoChicken]

Technical dead end. I agree. But usability-wise was pretty good. I think Unity design concept was on-par with macOS. The user doesn't care that Unity was a mess, it just works and people miss it.

I'm happily using Unity on Ubuntu 21.04. It's a "dead end" in the sense that there's no path to Wayland, and new features aren't being added. But the current feature set is being maintained. I'm sure that someday I'll feel compelled to switch to a DE that supports Wayland. Hopefully Lomiri will be usable on the desktop by then.

[evasb]

Unity was a technical dead end, with weird concepts and never run well on any hardware. Its the software version of old people looking back to the 60s with nostalgia and saying "when I was young, everything was better".

Technical dead end. I agree. But usability-wise was pretty good. I think Unity design concept was on-par with macOS. The user doesn't care that Unity was a mess, it just works and people miss it.

[Ironmask]

Unity was a technical dead end, with weird concepts and never run well on any hardware. Its the software version of old people looking back to the 60s with nostalgia and saying "when I was young, everything was better".

I remember when Unity came out, it specifically said it was "made for netbooks". I installed it on my Asus Eee PC and it was completely unusable, it felt like trying to use a UI made in Flash.

[tildearrow]

Vistaus Don’t

So you own Phoronix.

[Vistaus]

I have not seen him claiming GNOME has no bugs, to think any software has no bugs is a sigh of insanity.
Its always worth to see it in a context.

And it's also always worth to look at emoticons. 'Cause if you did, you could've seen that I was just messing around instead of quoting.

[finalzone]

Unity was abandoned just when they reached its sweet spot.

Because Unity was a complete mess code wises. Other distributions tried to port it on theirs but gave up because of custom package requirement specific to Ubuntu.

[Alexmitter]

Impossible. 144Hz and a few other devoted GNOME lovers on here are certain there are no bugs.

I have not seen him claiming GNOME has no bugs, to think any software has no bugs is a sigh of insanity.
Its always worth to see it in a context. Qt, the proprietary sold toolkit of our famous always nr. 2 desktop alone has more confirmed bugs open then the whole gnome ecosystem, some of them date back to Qt4, a few even to Qt3. Never fixed because no paying customer ever requested it to be fixed.

There will not be a lot of work on file-roller going forward as the focus is on getting archive functionality in nautilus itself, fedora for example already uses that insted.

[Alexmitter]

only if they bring unity back

Unity was abandoned just when they reached its sweet spot.

Unity was a technical dead end, with weird concepts and never run well on any hardware. Its the software version of old people looking back to the 60s with nostalgia and saying "when I was young, everything was better".

[Alexmitter]

out of my head, Mir seems to be the solution..
It always was, even with the older protocol which was lighter than wayland..

The old protocol (Mir) was not "lighter", it was basically Wayland with a few pieces from the Android Display Server stack thrown in.