Quoting: SkarjakComplaining about fragmentation is completely ridiculous.

No, it's not. Especially when it slows down Linux desktop progress a lot. You just don't pay attention, or aren't aware how complex moving from X11 to Wayland for many projects can be (consider Firefox, Wine, Qt, GTK, SDL and so on). Adding Mir to that mix could slow them down even more. So it's a major win that Mir is now being canned.

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Quoting: Geppeto35For me, it's Shadow warrior (2 I hope!): Wade Ferris + green tea logo + Shadow warrior team announced that some company will port their game sooner.

It'd be quite a change from the regular publishers/developers that Feral has ported for.

Yeah, and probably their first Linux port to appear on GOG?

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Quoting: AlveKattShadow Warrior 2 seemed to be a bit of a let-down though, so personally hoping it will be something else.

I've heard some criticism, and that the game had a different director. Shadow Warrior 1 was after all directed by those who also worked on The Witcher. So it's not surprising it came out very good. But I'll first play SW2, to make my own opinion.

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I think it's Shadow Warrior 2 after all. It was supposed to come out this spring. Check out "Wade Ferris Chronicles". Noted the name? :)

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About other news site. I wouldn't mind more quality reporting on Linux, but I hope it won't hurt GOL efforts.

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Quoting: liamdaweI've been shown a different log in IRC now https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/04/07/%23snappy.html [External Link] where Mir will stay for IoT devices.

That's weird. The reason they are dropping Mir is lack of manpower to reinvent the wheel. Why would they keep it now, if Wayland can work on IoT devices all the same?

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The main benefit of this, is dropping of Mir. This removes the annoying and wasteful rift that Canonical were causing.

It was one of the most requested changes by the way. See http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/04/thank-you-note-to-hackernews.html [External Link]

Quoting: liamdaweHave they actually confirmed this anywhere? Mir wasn't mentioned in the initial post from Mark.

Yes, see above.

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Shadow Warrior 2?

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Well, that demo isn't a compiled binary, but seems an Unreal project example. So I can't really test it directly (without figuring out how to build it).

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They probably put it out, to look better when Vega will come out. But it's hard for them to compete on price. I'm getting a Vega GPU as soon as kernel / Mesa will be in shape to support it. Seems like there will be a delay with that, because DC code wasn't merged yet.

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