Yes, it is really heart breaking how the Linux desktop is regressing. Instead of polishing the experience and focusing replacing Xlib with XCB which would make it possible to have excellent native performance, a huge amount of resources are invested in rewriting everything for Wayland. Now more than a decade later, things are still not even working properly (yes, maybe it works for you), with no credible plan for remote desktop, and instead toolkits just getting worse for X11. And then I have to say, from an engineering perspective, I find X to have vastly superior design (despite all the propaganda otherwise).
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Even under Windows, GDI days are over and RDP has to work with the modern toolkits, so nowadays it is h.264 streaming anyway. So basically the same as with Wayland.
Yes, upending the whole stack takes a while. X itself took a long time too. The thing is, it’s not a race. It’s OK for it to take decades.