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> no more forwarding X11 applications over ssh, which is slow at best It was "slow" when I did it over 10Base2 Ethernet spanning an entire building. These days
by jwr 6y ago
> no more forwarding X11 applications over ssh, which is slow at best
It was "slow" when I did it over 10Base2 Ethernet spanning an entire building. These days our CPUs are several orders of magnitude faster, and so are our networks. I don't need it to play the latest 3D games, I need it to display a user interface to an app that runs on a different machine. It's plenty fast enough.
- wazoox 6y agoYup. Today I have internet access faster than the LAN I used in the 90s and I routinely remotely run apps on my office desktop computer, reading my email, etc. from home. It works perfectly fine for anything not too graphically intensive, and it's way faster than starting a remote desktop session (which I use at times, too). On a local network, it's not significantly slower to run most apps through X11 forwarding than running them locally, and I use this extensively. The only daily application that's too slow is a browser, but Firefox (and before it, Mozilla did it too, and before it Netscape) automatically opens calls to the browser in the existing local window anyway (and there's always some pre-existing Firefox window open), even when running on some markedly different system (POSIX for the win). When I used MacOS more regularly, Quartz always was the first application I installed. When I see the comments from philistines unable to understand the obvious superiority of the one true Unix way, I always think of this Dilbert comic : https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24 https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24