Of course it does, just like video-based remote desktop systems work great these days.

That's the point, X's claimed advantages here long since stopped existing, and nobody noticed because the "inferior" approach is perfectly fine with modern internet connectivity.

Honestly, X forwarding doesn't work that well in my experience, unless you have a very stable connection, with quite a bit of bandwidth (~1Mbps at the very least). I've had more success using xpra for forwarding, as I'm often connecting over Wi-Fi (hostel, campus rooms...).

It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).

waypipe, on the other hand, was a breeze to use, even though it's very young. I tried with Firefox and 500Mbps of upload capacity, it worked fine as long as the window wasn't too large.

> It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).

you mean "ssh -Y user@host..."?

No, that is the client side. I went back and looked at the documentation, I was wrong and conflated two ways of doing it:

- X forwarding over SSH: this only requires changing X11Forwarding in OpenSSH sshd's config

- Plain X over network, which is secured with `xhost`, insecure, and needs transfering the magic cookie or other authentication information

So, not nearly as complex to setup as I recalled, though it's much simpler to run a nested wayland compositor (which waypipe does) than a X11 server (which xpra does). The difference between X11 and Wayland remote access thins when xpra is involved.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37157097/how-does-x11-au...

that would be the client side

To me, it’s been a while since 1Mbps was “quite a bit of bandwidth”, even for WAN connections.

Outside of major metros, in the US a lot of towns only offer up to 5Mbps down, and only then if you pay out the nose. Not sure if it matters for X forwarding, but upload caps are also ridiculously low even on otherwise reasonable connections.

Pretty much this. With 5 Mbps down on ADSL, you can expect 300 to 500 kbps up. It can be hard to remote connect home under those conditions.

> tried with Firefox and 500Mbps of upload capacity

That should have been 500 kbps