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177 points colinprince | 1 comments | 24 Sep 17 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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jandrese ◴[24 Sep 17 16:58 UTC] No.15325477[source]▶
The comment about how X is really just a distributed database system with occasional visual side effects that could be reduced down to 10 or so API calls gives us a glimpse as to what life could have been.

It's a shame that all of the X replacements on the horizon also ditch the network transparency part, even though that's been a killer feature for me. I hate how much of a hack Remote Desktop is on Windows machines.

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1. adrianratnapala ◴[25 Sep 17 01:21 UTC] No.15327449[source]▶
It's a shame that all of the X replacements on the horizon also ditch the network transparency part, even though that's been a killer feature for me.

Don't worry, in time everything will be re-invented on the web. With WebGL, the browser becomes just like an X server, only with a far richer feature set for malware authors.