[Discuss] Future of X11 (was Trying to connect to internet in Debian)

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> markw at mohawksoft.com said on Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:44:17 -0500
>
>>> Ron wrote on 2026-01-18 12:58:
>>
>>> I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people here are running
>>> graphical programs across a network.
>>
>>This is the thing with non-unix people trying to write unix software,
>>they don't understand unix.
>
> I must not understand Unix either, because the few GUI programs I write
> never consider the possibility of remote usage. This is exactly why I
> made my UMENU program CLI instead of GUI: You can run it anywhere, even
> on a teletype. And you can run it in a simple CLI SSH session.

Sure text where text is text, ssh rules. Have you ever used ssh to connect
to your home machine to run a graphical program (like a browser) to get
data?

You should seriously try X11 over ssh, it is absolutely amazing. In a LAN,
it is almost indistinguishable from local. (Well, maybe not that good) but
X11 over network is a useful tool. Abandoning it is a mistake.



>
> Personally, I try very hard never to run GUI programs remotely. If I
> were really desperate, I'd program them locally and use git to
> synchronize when I'm on the road. No GUI required.
>
> SteveT
>
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