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> The decline of X has us so desperate that we're abusing web browsers as remote displays. There's a fundamental difference between a X11 remote display, and a
by cesarb 7y ago
> The decline of X has us so desperate that we're abusing web browsers as remote displays.
There's a fundamental difference between a X11 remote display, and an application running within a web browser. This difference becomes obvious when the network connection drops: the X11 application will immediately freeze, since all of its code was running in the remote computer, while the application within the web browser can retain some of its functionality.