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by kevin_thibedeau 951 days ago
X doesn't work as well as it used to. Before all the eyecandy became routine it was normal to use it remotely over a LAN. It performed well at that job in the era of OpenLook and Motif over 10Mbit Ethernet. Nowadays X is sluggish over an SSH tunnel to a local client server, even with classic Athena apps. Something has gone astray with xorg and it's giving X in general a bad rap.