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Re:FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation by toast0 on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:32PM (#22835984)
> extremely synchronous

X11, the protocol, is actually mostly asynchronous, it's the libraries and the applications that were built around it in synchronous ways. If you run older applications (like 90s to early 2000s) over X11, it's a lot less bad than modern apps.

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Re:FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation by naasking on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:03PM (#22837780)
Isn't that mostly because modern apps have richer textures and high resolution, high bit depth images by comparison?
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Re:FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation by toast0 on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:32PM (#22839251)
Maybe to some degree; head of line blocking and window sizes are real issues that would cause delays; but most of the problem is around requiring more round trips. This is what has made running X servers as thin clients go from being viable on the 10M ethernet of the 90s to being a terrible idea on 1G ethernet today.
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