Kind of niche and specific to X11, but one my favorite quotes is from jwz [1]: "X is slow because of the separation of servers and clients, i.e., the client-se

Kind of niche and specific to X11, but one my favorite quotes is from jwz [1]: "X is slow because of the separation of servers and clients, i.e., the client-server model, i.e., its network capacity. It doesn't matter that it uses shared segments in the degenerate case -- it still takes a dozen context-switches amongst three different processes before an X client can even pick its nose." [1] https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/04/2242224/ask-slashdot-comparing-the-guis https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/04/2242224/ask-slashdot-com...