Yup. 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.

Yup. 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