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Indeed, this network transparency, I use it every day... It is the #1 feature I couldn't do without on Wayland.

But X11 has been stale so long it would really benefit from a back-to-the-drawing-board approach. From many points of view. Network latency, security etc.

But Wayland isn't it for me... It's too desktop centric IMO.



What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?


No, running apps remotely. I specifically don't want to run desktops within Windows. Having remotely running programs on my desktop within my native window manager (or even on Mac and Windows) is much better.

I mainly use it when logging into headless servers by the way. Saves me setting up a complete desktop environment there. All they need is the GUI apps I need and some X libs.




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