Huge? Seriously? It's just a more efficient window manager. I don't really care much about the window manage, X has never been inefficient for me, my hardware is plenty fast enough. I think Mir is more likely a benefit for low end hardware like smartphones.
Window Manager used to have a very specific meaning, at least for me... WindowMaker, Sawfish, BlackBox, E16, E17, FVWM, TWM, these are all window managers. X11 is not a window manager. All window managers run under X11. These are the precepts.
Windows had a window manager too, and you could swap it out. There weren't nearly as many options.
Anyway, I for one am excited about Mir, because it means that my tf-101 or the replacement some years in the future may rejoin the convergence zone. They are making steps to live in the Android ecosystem, at least according to the article summaries I've come across that give any inkling of information about Mir.
If you google ASUS Transformer Ubuntu and follow some of the howtos you find, it's an absolute joke trying to get a windowed environment that resembles any netbook, laptop, or desktop you could buy last year or the year before that. "Now use Android VNC client to connect..." WTF?
Nobody else seems to be heading back to the convergence zone. Maybe wayland will get there at the same time. That's my rant.
Not that the definition of Window Manager is at all germane to the point, which I think was "I don't like efficiency".
Could have been either that, or "competition is bad, we already have the best way." You're right I think, it is probably characteristic of a manager to try to tell people what way to spend their time.
