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

[Steve Litt]

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.

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

Steve Litt 

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