Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

it's really hard to put a couple hundred gig of ram into a laptop, but trivial to remote the display from a server that has a couple hundred gig of ram to a laptop that you can carry into a conference room.

you may try to argue that the app could be written to work that way through other means, but that misses the point that with X the app author doesn't have to make a decision of if the app should be network accessable or not. If app authors have to go to extra effort to make their stuff network accessable, most of them won't go to that effort (after all, nobody needs that anyway, that's why the feature was removed from linux systems to start with right?) and the only apps that will have the ability to be networked are the ancient X apps (that predate the change), or high-end 'enterprise' commercial apps where someone is paying for the feature.

this leaves out the huge middle ground where the app author never thought about the need to be networked, but that app ends up being the perfect thing to use when backed by the right hardware. Instead someone will have to fork or recreate the app in a networked version.