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> While on the road, you can use your notebook to open a Gimp session on your home machine and edit an image stored there.

How practical is that? I have horrible upload speed at home which ruins all these "just remote into your home machine" workflows for anything more than a terminal.



Not at all practical. Remote X11 isn’t really practical on a LAN, much less over a slower internet link. It’s cool in theory but not especially useful.




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