It also offloads several of the features of X to the clients. Including inter-process communication and networking. I suppose you can view this as good or bad,

It also offloads several of the features of X to the clients. Including inter-process communication and networking. I suppose you can view this as good or bad, but it certainly much smaller and, in some ways, more efficient since I don't need to have the ability to network unless I load up an RDP.