I don't
need a network-transparent GUI.
But don't assume that's true of everyone.
I've used it DAILY, all
day, every day, no joke, since about 1991.
I'm pretty much with Dave here. "All day, every day" would be an
exaggeration for me; there have been days when I haven't computed, or
have computed solely on non-networked machines (eg, when traveling).
But, except for such special cases, I depend heavily on X's "everything
goes through an octet stream" model, which is why it's networkable.
Indeed, there are a some half a dozen of my terminal emuators that run
"forever", in one place, with displays there or elsewhere coming and
going as I find convenient - I've probably had some of those windows
displaying in as many as six or seven places at once on occasion,
though these days more than three places is rare.
Someone was recently telling me about some people trying to design a
successor to X. I was interested (X really does suck in a few
respects), until I heard it was abandoning the networkability aspect;
that alone makes it not worth even finding out more about, to me.
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