I too lament people trying to kill the X Window System off.

There is a fork now. Maybe they won't succeed!

That software is powerful and it makes things possible that should be possible but so often aren't!

My favorite X window accomplishment was setting 30 users up on a powerful CAD system running on a big Origin server. It handled all of them nicely, and the application, data and such all ran at local speed on that server. At the time, this was damn fast!

System Admin was easy too. I had a modem on that machine and would dial it up, fix the things from all over the country on a free Juno account! 2.5Kbytes per second on average and that was plenty!

So many great experiences on X. I used it hard.

Also up thread, I wrote about fully distributing a CAD app. One machine displaying for user, one managing windows, one serving fonts, on sharing the data files onto another one running the actual application reading data files from yet another one sharing those...

Crazy. Click an icon and 7 boxes all work together to get it done.