• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    It’s really more like Remote Desktop+. It has some additional “features” (slight retch) on top of traditional Remote Desktop features.

    Let’s wait and see if it’s actually more secure than traditional Remote Desktop.

    (and I’d still rather use Wine)

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          3 months ago

          Unlike X11, Wayland was never intended to be network transparent. As others say, solutions like waypipe and more tradionally RDP and VNC exist.

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            3 months ago

            Exactly. We won’t. We’ll get specialized video stream over network. I’m not happy about this regression. I understand that was a willing sacrifice to achieve better local performance, but I’m not sure it was worth it.

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              3 months ago

              Their reasoning was that X11 network transparency had been broken for quite some time. If you tried running chrome, most games, or anything with modern hardware acceleration over X11 forwarding, they wouldn’t work.

              So, IMHO waypipe is actually an improvement in terms of compatibility, rather than a regression.

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                3 months ago

                You always had the option to send frames over the net using VNC and such. But for many use cases, X over SSH was absolutely fantastic.

                I remember using it on a very basic DSL connection to work remotely back in 2005, and it was almost like running local. You don’t get anywhere near the same performance with VNC or RDP.