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> It reminds me of when RDP for Windows first came out back in the day;
> it was really 'chunky' and nasty even on a LAN, whereas properly
> written X programs could run nearly as well over a network as
> locally.  Nowdays it's flipped; X is really not optimized for image
> streaming and IMO an X program that's image heavy is way worse than
> RDP.

Well, the second half of your first sentence is still true: *properly
written* X programs can run nearly as well over the network as locally.
It's just that people have stopped writing X programs properly, at
least for that value of "properly".  Presumably, in their authors'
opinions, over-the-net functionality is less important than things like
antialiasing, even with display resolution increasing, making things
like antialiasing less important.

But non-"modern" (ie, not that sloppily written) X programs still work
as well as they ever did.  I routinely use my X clients displaying on a
"modern" X server over the network.

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