I'm just amazed X is still a thing. It's the definition of niche. I can't even imagine putting dev ours into it. It should seriously just be dropped and abandoned. X is one of the most detrimental pieces of technology holding desktop Linux (or *nix) back.
I still wish Ubuntu went with Mir over Wayland (which is also trash).
If you want remote apps, just transfer pixels... seriously!
GPUs are still rare in datacenters, and definitely not 1:1 with end users’ displays. When a backend needs a GUI, I don’t see much reason to choose anything other than local Javascript or Wasm to display it. It’s thoroughly cross platform and hardware accelerated.
I still wish Ubuntu went with Mir over Wayland (which is also trash).
If you want remote apps, just transfer pixels... seriously!