From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:15:06 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like
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On 15 Mar 2017, at 01:13, Nick Downing <downing.nick at gmail.com> wrote:
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> But the difficulty with X Windows is that the remoting layer is always there, even though it is almost completely redundant today.

It's redundant if you don't ever use machines which you aren't physically sitting next to and want to run any kind of graphical tool run on them.  I do that all the time.

--tim