Yes, and why does X/Y hardware only work on Canonical? Could it be because some drivers are closed source? Could it be because Canonical not always contribute back the patches upstream?

And in >= 2014, Could it be because Ubuntu going they'r own route with MiR instead of Wayland? Again it may hurt other dist because X/Y company will only support MiR and the other dists stands alone Remember apps thjats runs on Wayland will not run on MiR and viseversa. Mainly because they use differenbt protocols. This means you in worst case developers has to provide 2 different versions of the same app even if the app is compiled using Qt or Gtk framework. == Linux fragmentation (thank you Canonical

Now thats why we are kinda upset! This is different from the "wars" between KDE and Gnome, Enlightenment, Unity etc. Thats just different choices so not something that hurts the community in the end.... People are different prefer different UI so nothing wrong with that.

But the decision with MiR is yet another reason(of many) I dislike the way Canonical has started behave latelly. And yes I still is one of those using ubuntu based dist (kubuntu but atleast kubuntu will use Wayland cause thats what KDE has decided to go so I guess it really is time kubuntu rename the dist to something better) .


Btw. to clarify I see nothing wrong with going forward with a new server architecture, X11 is broken on todays HW. But in even worser case, because of this ridicilous fragmentation, it may endthat no developers will bother to provide Mir/Wayland "builds" and we are back in the same hell as today. means X11 apps in top of XWayland or XMir and it make both loose just because stupid decision made by Canonical.