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What is sad is that this is, unwittingly, a consolidation of unix desktop onto just 1 monoculture of Linux with Wayland should it become ubiquitous. Since ther
by shrubble 3y ago
What is sad is that this is, unwittingly, a consolidation of unix desktop onto just 1 monoculture of Linux with Wayland should it become ubiquitous.
Since there is no network transparency, you won't have the ability to interoperate with graphical applications running on non-Linux machines either.
Meanwhile I was able to ssh -X into my FreeBSD desktop with a low end Linux laptop and run the same apps with the same settings etc. by using X11 which runs on both systems.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoAIUI waypipe should actually be better for network transparency than X was. Of course, that requires that the other end is compatible and that the software runs on all the involved operating systems, which does seem to be a sticking point.
- bitsandboots 3y agoI've thought about this too but every time I've ever used remote X it's been terribly horribly slow. Do you really care? With RDP/VNC/others as alternatives, remote X has always seemed the most interesting but worst performing of them all.