Reading part of the interview with Clem lefebvre where he offers his opinion on Mir, I started thinking To what extent can Mir affect us?
Let's take a simple example: LibreOffice. Many distributions adopted this Office Suite when what we all know happened, however, that does not mean that we cannot install another alternative, even our own OpenOffice.
Debian for example still includes Office in their repositories, and we can install it if we want Wouldn't it be the same with Mir? Though Canonical bring this new graphical server to all variants of Ubuntu, there is no reason why you should remove from repositories to Xorg o Wayland, so the rest of the * buntu they could still use these graphics servers. Do you understand my point?
For that part, I don't think there is any problem, and I sincerely hope so. Already some developers of KDE have confessed that they will not waste their efforts in supporting Mir (for now), and that they will continue to use Xorg o Wayland.
This means Kubuntu it could run its course and wouldn't have to use another distribution as a base as some speculate. Although on the part of Xfce I have not seen any note about it, because I imagine the same happens with Xubuntu.
I myself have come to think that Canonical more and more of the initial objective for con Ubuntuand that Mir It could be one more step in trying to create products that can only be used by them.
It already happens with Unity, which install it in other distributions although it is not impossible, it turns out to be a nuisance mainly due to the absence of libraries that do not exist in other repositories, in Debian for example.
Ok, let's say it will be like this, what Canonical wants to become the Apple of the FLOSS, that they want to create their own platform, and that they are the ones who decide what is good or not for the user. Should we care?
Well, if you are a user of Ubuntu and you do not like the line that this distro is following maybe, but the rest we can continue living peacefully. Although it is very fucked up that many think that GNU / Linux es UbuntuThose of us in this world know that it is not true, and for that we are here, to clarify to anyone who has doubts.
Bottom line: I don't know about you, but Mir it does not affect me in particular. If in the end it can be used in the rest of the distributions, then better, much better .. if it can't, then Xorg it continues with its development, which may be slow or whatever, but it has not died. What do they believe?