Interesting, in fact I always wondered how RDP performs so well. > That is incorrect. RDP is actually usable over an internet link; X11 is far too chatty and r

Interesting, in fact I always wondered how RDP performs so well. > That is incorrect. RDP is actually usable over an internet link; X11 is far too chatty and ridden with roundtrip latency for that use case. Even VNC does better over the wire than X. Yes I use it over an internet link and it works reliably. But the main difference between RDP and X11 forwarding is that RDP forwards the entire session, while with X11 you forward the single application. With X11 forwarding you can indeed run on the same X server different X clients. That can be an advantage in an era of microservices, because you can see an X client as a microservice, and thus have a workstation (a X server) run a plentful of X clients each one on a different machine/VM/container.