xpra is my favored tool out of plain X forwarding / vnc / (free)nx / x2go / etc, but one issue I have with it (at least last time I used it) is that it requires the version string to be identical on both client and server. This, combined with it being written in python, means that every distro packages it differently, has a different version number, and if you want to just clone it and run it yourself, now you have to deal with python / virtualenv / whatever hell.
Other than that, it's pretty great.
Re:X and NeWS history
by DonHopkins on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:55AM
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If you believe the README.txt files of downloads from The Pirate Bay, there exist some amazing video codecs that are so new and advanced that they can actually play episodes of Rick and Morty that haven't even been released yet! It's almost as good as inter-dimensional cable TV. And they are totally free: you just have to download and install some binary codecs from some Russian web site before watching the video.
Well worth checking out.