You don't loose anything. Open up gimp remotely on the road, try it. It isn't usable ny any stretch of imagination. That is why we need hacks such as x2go to

You don't loose anything. Open up gimp remotely on the road, try it. It isn't usable ny any stretch of imagination. That is why we need hacks such as x2go to make it usable. Even the worst RDP solution is orders of magnitude better in performance than X11.