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I see you've been downvoted, but the hatred towards Mir (instead of Wayland!) in a world where there are a million Linux distributions, and the idea that you could always switch to a different app/driver/OS/distribution/window manager/etc. has always been pushed as a strength of the platform clearly indicates that there was more to it, whether the people who hated on Mir knew it or not.

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There are strong voices clamoring for a single, canonical (heh) distro. Or if not a single distro then a system for isolating the particulars of any odd distro from the mind of the "app" (groan) developers.

But they're almost certainly a fraction of those that spoke loudly against Mir.

[Unless the Mir haters are not as large in number, but merely a lot louder]

In recent years i wonder if the net has become the playground of "griefers". Meaning people that exploit the pseudonymity of the net to sling vitriol at any and all topics that catch their attention. Thus it becomes hard to tell how many are actually in disagreement.

It may well have started with Anonymous, but turned nasty somewhere around Gamersgate.

Or maybe instead of a distro, we could define certain conventions for interoperability that all distributions had to follow. We could call it the "Linux Standard Base." But looking into my crystal ball, it might not work out well if certain companies flex too much control to define the Linux Standard Base as being essentially their own distribution without any real compromise.

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