[GoLUG] LOL, people wonder why I don't like the Gnome project

[Kyle Terrien]

On 9/9/23 09:51, o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 9:08 AM Alex Finkel <alex.finkel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The X Window System is without a doubt an amazing display system and has been critically important to UNIX/Linux on the desktop.  It has served the community well for 40 years. Quite the achievement. But it’s age is a factor as it was designed for a time when the technology and security considerations were a bit different than today.  How often do folks nowadays need to run graphical applications running on distant systems vs directly on the local system?  Those capabilities that are not as useful to okay as they once were hamper the performance and security stance of systems running X11.
> 
> Hmm - - - interesting - - - you see that as not necessary - - - - I
> use X in this way - - - well the are remote systems
> and I run them from my main box a.k.a. headless. Makes more sense than
> running kvms and miles of extra wires!! (You know like a test system
> for my main box,
> then there is a seriously big server and a test system for that - -
> also working on
> other control systems - - - I'll be able to connect/manage all that from one box
> - - simple - - - no way - - possible - - - - easily.)

I also wish Wayland supported running remote applications.  :-(  It's a 
useful feature.

It's too bad they didn't follow the Plan 9 design of having /dev/draw 
for graphical instructions alongside /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout.  Then, 
you could have better terminals that you can use to SSH into systems and 
run an application that "takes over" the terminal, except in a truly 
graphical mode instead of ncurses.

--Kyle

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