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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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)

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago

Did they invent X11 Forwarding over the network?

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago

Btw. when we get wayland forwarding over Network?

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 34 points 2 days ago

waypipe exists, but it's still not perfect.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 13 minutes ago

Neither was X11 so it's in good company

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Never heard about this. Thx.

[-] d_k_bo@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

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

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days 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.

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 5 points 2 days 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.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days 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.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

It’s more about security if I recall correctly

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

How so? Is there a way for malicious code to start injecting itself into calls to 127.0.0.1?

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry, I am not an expert myself, but I think there are some recourses about that in the internet

Or, this file on x.org:

“But the X protocol is still unsecure by design…”

https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/XDC2014DodierPeresSecurity/xorg-talk.pdf

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, to send it naked over the wire would be nuts, which is why everybody uses SSH. But unless there’s insecurity within the computer, that’s a moot point.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Btw. when we get wayland ~~forwarding over Network~~?

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

/c/foundthenvidiauser

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

X11 can render individual windows (Xclients) through the network on another Xserver since decades. With XPRA you can even buffer them, to move them from one Xserver to another or make sure they survive network disconnect. It's very cool, but not widely used.

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 10 points 2 days ago

Yes, the ssh -X flag forwards it.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I doubt it's nearly as secure as OpenSSH though.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

it goes through an SSH tunnel

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