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> Mir and WAyland was because wayland couldn't do what they wanted technically.

What exactly is it that you think Wayland couldn't do and why was it necessary to invent an incompatible application interface to achieve that?

> Snap came BEFORE flatpak. Flatpak was the "new competing standard" in that situation.

And AppImage came before snap.

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> What exactly is it that you think Wayland couldn't do and why was it necessary to invent an incompatible application interface to achieve that?

From the mir technical architect (found on askubuntu): https://samohtv.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/mir-an-outpost-envi...

> And AppImage came before snap.

Exactly right! And if the ONLY goal was compatibility, we all should be using appimage over snap. But snap was and is trying to promise more in terms of end-user security and transactional updates from the vendor. So there is a legitimate reason to make something new.

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