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[–] UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's all bespoke

Unfortunately, that's by design. Mir was the display server that tried to combat that exact problem, and we burned it at the stake.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

, and we burned it at the stake.

Gotta love that about FOSS communities. Every time someone tries to do something interesting, we burn them at the stake. It's a classic of the Mozilla fandom, for example.

[–] UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Ironically, everyone hated it because they thought it would cause fragmentation.