Post #3797495
2026-07-13 19:12 UTC
@neal@social.gompa.me @datenwolf@chaos.social @miah@hachyderm.io I'm aware that's their position and I disagree with it deeply.
It is only faster if you have unlimited bandwidth between the client and server (i.e. if the display is local or you have an extremely fast wired network).
It may mesh better with the bad way apps for popular desktop environments are presently designed to be horribly wasteful consuming all available resources for eye candy.
It actively discourages writing apps that do things the right way and don't do that.
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@neal@social.gompa.me 2026-07-13 19:16
@dalias@hachyderm.io @datenwolf@chaos.social @miah@hachyderm.io What? No. It literally has the opposite effect: only the remote server (even a headless one) needs to be able to run the GL/VK APIs or accelerated encoding. It makes it so that it's tolerant of high latency connections and lower bandwidth connections. I've literally been able to use Wayland apps with `waypipe --video ssh` over in-flight Wi-Fi over the Atlantic with minimal UX impact. The app was responsive and worked fine.