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   On 23/10/2025 08:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > On 22/10/2025 22:05, druck wrote:   
   >> On 22/10/2025 14:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>> There is a general rule that after a time, any chunk of software is    
   >>> so full of bodges and patches and hacked on bug fixes and cruft that    
   >>> is worth rewriting from the ground up.   
   >>   
   >> It's a great way of creating a whole new set of bodges and bugs, by    
   >> throwing away all the years of knowledge and bug fixes.   
   >>   
   > Yes, but usually from a better starting point   
   >    
   >> The Wayland crew decided to avoid some of this by simply not    
   >> implementing great chunks of functionality and refusing to ever get to    
   >> feature parity with X11.   
   >>   
   > Indeed. My one experience of trying to run X over a network revealed    
   > dire performance and flaky behaviour.   
   >    
   > Like, who needs it?   
   >    
   >> ---druck   
   >    
   I run X apps across the home network all the time. I have a small 1L    
   computer that acts as a NAS and runs headless. Mostly I just ssh into it    
   but there are times when it's easier to run X across the net.   
      
   At work I use RDP onto a Windows server over the VPN to access data    
   centre developmemt machines in Netherlands from my home. I use X for    
   accessing the Linux machines onto the Windows server and RDP to get it    
   to my laptop. X across the data centre 1/2.5/10Gb network is plenty fast    
   and RDP compresses the data nicely to me. Fast enough to watch video    
   generated on a Linux box, X its way to Windows and RDP its way to me.   
      
   ssh -C -X someone@somehost to enable compression and X11 forwarding.   
      
      
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