Your experience doesn't match with other people's. Remote X over fast low latency networks is fine, a near local experience-- even running things like firefox

Your experience doesn't match with other people's. Remote X over fast low latency networks is fine, a near local experience-- even running things like firefox or gimp. (And for classic apps it's indistinguishable from local). The wayland world alternatives like using RDP are painful to the point of usability even over a 10gigbit network, peg the cpu... and are really only good for rescuing something that's stuck or providing a bit of tech support. Yes, over a high latency network remote X is sucky but seldom much worse than RDP.