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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by asveikau on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:06PM (#24200388)
All of that said, "ssh -Y" works pretty well for me. It's pretty usable.

And from a user perspective I personally like the "application connects to render" model much better than VNC or RDP style entire-desktop streaming.

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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by spanhandler on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:11PM (#24201291)
IIRC it used to work a lot better (like, a whole lot better) but modern X apps mostly end up sending bitmaps over the wire, rather than native X rendering instructions.

Agree that it works better than other remote desktop options on Linux. Overall though I get better performance with RDP to Win10 running Linux in Virtualbox (!) than any other option I've tried though, including Linux on bare metal with a variety of remote desktop options, and Virtualbox's remote desktop server.

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