"Neither OSX nor Windows use X and both of them look much nicer." What does the graphics design of OSX and Windows have to do with how X is architected? Which

"Neither OSX nor Windows use X and both of them look much nicer." What does the graphics design of OSX and Windows have to do with how X is architected? Which effects provided by the OSX or Windows interface cannot be done by a compositing X window manager? "Both Windows and OSX do remote desktop just fine for the minority who need it." X network transparency has nothing to do with remote desktop - as a matter of fact X doesn't have that notion or any support for it. The X protocol is strictly for per-application event and drawing. There is a huge class of problems that X can solve where remote desktop would be useless.