Subj : Re: x11 vs wayland
To   : All
From : mm0fmf
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 12:23:54

On 23/10/2025 08:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 22/10/2025 22:05, druck wrote:
>> On 22/10/2025 14:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> There is a general rule that after a time, any chunk of software is 
>>> so full of bodges and patches and hacked on bug fixes and cruft that 
>>> is worth rewriting from the ground up.
>>
>> It's a great way of creating a whole new set of bodges and bugs, by 
>> throwing away all the years of knowledge and bug fixes.
>>
> Yes, but usually from a better starting point
> 
>> The Wayland crew decided to avoid some of this by simply not 
>> implementing great chunks of functionality and refusing to ever get to 
>> feature parity with X11.
>>
> Indeed. My one experience of trying to run X over a network revealed 
> dire performance and flaky behaviour.
> 
> Like, who needs it?
> 
>> ---druck
> 
I run X apps across the home network all the time. I have a small 1L 
computer that acts as a NAS and runs headless. Mostly I just ssh into it 
but there are times when it's easier to run X across the net.

At work I use RDP onto a Windows server over the VPN to access data 
centre developmemt machines in Netherlands from my home. I use X for 
accessing the Linux machines onto the Windows server and RDP to get it 
to my laptop. X across the data centre 1/2.5/10Gb network is plenty fast 
and RDP compresses the data nicely to me. Fast enough to watch video 
generated on a Linux box, X its way to Windows and RDP its way to me.

ssh -C -X someone@somehost to enable compression and X11 forwarding.


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