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Re:VS Code on a Remote Server by bitwize on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:35PM (#19395686)
No. The X protocol is objectively shit. It's so shit, modern toolkits don't even fully use it anymore. Instead they do all rendering locally and pipe the composited pixmaps over to the X server via DRI. Over a network, guess what? No DRI. Meaning uncompressed pixmaps get sent over that network link every time a redraw happens.

Wayland, Pipewire, and H.265 will be a much better general solution to remote desktop access. In the meantime, VSCode via browser is a MUCH better approach than trying to forward it over X over any but the fastest network links.

Re:VS Code on a Remote Server by kristianp on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:34PM (#19426889)
To clarify your statement about Wayland, it doesn't support remote desktop access in itself [1]. A remote desktop server would sit on top of Wayland.

[1] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8