Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 17, 2003 02:36 AM
When accelerated X runs just as fast as any other windowing system out there. The perception that X, the protocol, is slow is just that, a perception. The main problems are that the kernel wasn't optimised for desktop use (2.6 will be), and that acceleration of complex graphical operations, like transparency and anti-aliasing, isn't quite there yet (but they're working on it). The RENDER extension provides this, but in XFree it's mostly unaccelerated.
X allows me to do stuff that is literally impossible with windows (and windows itself doesn't even really use direct rendering for windowing, yet). Like tieing two desktops of different machines together (sharing one keyboard/mouse combo) using x2x. Or, obviously, running the mail client that's on my home desktop from my laptop across the internet (want speed from remote X, try ssh -C to log in).
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Re:ditch X
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 17, 2003 02:36 AMX allows me to do stuff that is literally impossible with windows (and windows itself doesn't even really use direct rendering for windowing, yet). Like tieing two desktops of different machines together (sharing one keyboard/mouse combo) using x2x. Or, obviously, running the mail client that's on my home desktop from my laptop across the internet (want speed from remote X, try ssh -C to log in).
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