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by tn1 2200 days ago
X11 is an extremely chatty protoy. Try it over a higher latency connection (say, across the US from you) and you will notice that it can take minutes before even xterm will show up.

Also, another benefit of VNC is that it's like tmux: if your session gets interrupted then your programs won't all get HUP'd.