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This is where I wish Plan 9 had caught on. It lets you run remote graphical apps more seamlessly than any remote desktop I know of today.

• jjtheblunt 4y ago
  better than X11 did? better than Display Postscript did? (genuinely wondering since i've not had a chance to play with Plan 9, kinda randomly)
  • ryukafalz 4y ago
    X forwarding involves granting the remote system access to your X socket, which is very powerful. I don’t know for sure that Plan 9’s model avoids this (I’ve only had small chances here and there to play with Plan 9), but given its heavy use of namespacing I suspect it’s at least possible. Performance-wise X forwarding was always pretty slow for me in a way that Plan 9 seems to avoid, though I’ve gathered it used to be more efficient prior to modern graphical toolkits that want to draw a bunch of bitmaps to the screen. It’s possible they were more evenly matched in the past. Not sure about Display Postscript, never had a chance to try that one.
    • jjtheblunt 4y ago
      Display Postscript was really great, and X11R5 at least was super snappy, predates the Motif and other window managers slightly, I think. But i also would use super fast window managers and usually not be pushing bitmaps all over.