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I don't think it's going to compete with anything. Pretty much everyone supports(and if not they will) Wayland, so maintaining and supporting Mir will become moot.

One of those things that you really can't understand why they sink money into it :(

Most of the stack is still the same as Wayland, so the question is how much extra work support will require.

Either it's sufficiently different to require extra support, or it's similar enough to not warrant its own existence.

Except that you're not. 16.04 is an LTS release, therefore Canonical delayed the Mir integration to 16.10.

> Since I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, I should be using Mir

You're wrong. That's Unity 8. And it's not the default DE (although you can apt-get install it).

Yes, I tried it with Ubuntu 16.04, and my system hung.

I was looking forward to trying it out, because the Intel integrated graphics (HD4000) has bad tearing problems with application such as Firefox.

That, combined with PulseAudio problems may force me to re-install 14.04. Though I need to keep using Win10 this week because of a CAD program anyway.