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There's definitely an elitist undercurrent. But that is just the endpoint of working with a system that actually is better. I discovered UNIX back in 1990. By

There's definitely an elitist undercurrent. But that is just the endpoint of working with a system that actually is better. I discovered UNIX back in 1990. By 1991 I was working with a full-featured GUI. Around 1993 I thought I should take a look at this new-fangled 'Windows' that everybody on the Internet was raving about. I couldn't believe how horribly primitive it was. Windows didn't become usable, IMHO, until Windows 95, so by then it was a full four years at least behind the half-dozen or so UNIX desktops that were based on X11. (And even then, it wasn't a true pre-emptive multi-tasking OS.) Windows in 2020 still hasn't caught up with the network-based X11 that can easily run a program on a machine in Britain and have it launched, controlled and displayed on a desktop in New Zealand. https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24 https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24

selfhoster11 6y ago
> Windows in 2020 still hasn't caught up with the network-based X11 that can easily run a program on a machine in Britain and have it launched, controlled and displayed on a desktop in New Zealand. Windows has RDP support, which is strictly better than X11 forwarding because it allows for seamless operation of many multimedia-oriented features that would be expected from modern desktop sessions on any OS. I remember it supporting printer, drive, sound and USB forwarding, all of which aren't possible with plain X11 without filling in the gaps yourself. The de-facto standard solutions from third party suppliers like TeamViewer are also a significant alternative for cross-platform usage.
1MachineElf 6y ago
You can achieve something like X11 application forwarding with RDP on Windows Server, just not quite as snappy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/remote/single-application-sharing-with-terminal-server https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server...

selfhoster11 6y ago

> Windows in 2020 still hasn't caught up with the network-based X11 that can easily run a program on a machine in Britain and have it launched, controlled and displayed on a desktop in New Zealand. Windows has RDP support, which is strictly better than X11 forwarding because it allows for seamless operation of many multimedia-oriented features that would be expected from modern desktop sessions on any OS. I remember it supporting printer, drive, sound and USB forwarding, all of which aren't possible with plain X11 without filling in the gaps yourself. The de-facto standard solutions from third party suppliers like TeamViewer are also a significant alternative for cross-platform usage.

1MachineElf 6y ago

You can achieve something like X11 application forwarding with RDP on Windows Server, just not quite as snappy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/remote/single-application-sharing-with-terminal-server https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server...