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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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rwmj ◴[24 Jun 25 21:13 UTC] No.44371126[source]▶
It's like the "oh no, X11 suffers from tearing video" problem that they pull out all the time. (A) I have no idea what "video tear" is and (B) I play video all the time on my crappy laptop running X11 and it seems fine for me. But can I ssh to my remote server and run emacs or another program completely transparently yet with Wayland? Nope. I do that with X11 continuously.
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1. const_cast ◴[26 Jun 25 02:25 UTC] No.44383705[source]▶
> But can I ssh to my remote server and run emacs or another program completely transparently yet with Wayland? Nope. I do that with X11 continuously

The problem is this usecase sucks major ass on X and has for a decade at least. It worked meh at one point, but as modern applications became more complex and X exploded in complexity it no longer makes any sense.

X is an unbelievably chatty protocol. Believe it or not, it's primarily meant to be run on a local socket, which is almost certainly memory mapped. Running it over the network has incredible latency, terrible lag spikes, and your windows will just kill themselves somewhat randomly.

There are newer remote desktop protocols which are literally just better.