It kind of is. For a very long time it was the only option.

Yeah there’s more stuff that runs in the shell. But pretty much all the things you mentioned would work on a VT100 from the 70s. This is about modernising the terminal itself.

Hell, Linux terminal emulators don’t even have a “clear screen & scroll-back” keyboard shortcut like Command-K on Mac. There’s no command output history, there are no auto-complete popups, editing commands is still extremely basic (no multiline input for example). The command prompt doesn’t even have the text editing capabilities of Notepad.

No the point of terminals is not to make people that dislike mice happy. They simply were created before mice were common and haven’t been updated at all. This is an attempt to do that.

I don’t think this is intended to fundamentally change what a terminal/shell does - it doesn’t even go as far as Nushell. It’s just about modernising the interface.

Any way to do that other than backing them up to another machine/USB drive is too risky IMO.

They’re being tactful. It’s clearly a reference to Waiting for Godot. They even said so.

The name “Godot” was chosen in reference to Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.

It is definitely a silent t. They’ve just misread it.

I agree, it’s really annoying.

I don’t agree with everything Israel does but you have to consider the environment they’re in. They may be aggressive and racist but they’re not terrorists.

WPRS uses the term rootless like this. I didn’t come up with it. But I agree it is not a great term. If you can think of a better one I will happily use it. Parallels calls it “coherence mode”, which also isn’t great.

Actually Xprs uses “seamless mode” which is probably better.

Yeah it’s more complex. I don’t think there’s any more overhead though, and there’s no reason it will be slow.

Can’t you just run it locally?

No, unfortunately not.

Isn’t it just basic X forwarding?

but there are literally dozens of strategies you probably don’t know about

Oh please tell me, wise old man! You can’t be talking about garbage collection, reference counting, smart pointers, never-free, arenas, defer, or god forbid, the “I am perfect and can do it manually and never make mistakes” method. Because I know about all of those methods.

What are these other dozens of methods that I don’t know about that mean Rust is unnecessary? 🙄

Sorry I misread, VNC is slow. RDP is a lot better. Does not appear to be rootless though, even though IIRC the RDP protocol does support that? I might have misremembered.

Yeah MJPEG isn’t going to cut it, and as you say it’s not rootless.

I mean it’s totally possible in theory. Do you just mean nobody has actually written something that does this?

You have to launch an app, log in twice and then you get an annoying VNC-style remote desktop, not native windows. Also it doesn’t run at all on Wayland. Apart from that it works pretty well - fast, and stuff like copy/paste works. I would just like something that is as convenient as remote X, but not dog slow.

See my edit to the post. I probably should have clarified that.

Don’t tease gossip? Either say “I’m quitting due to personal reasons” or give actual details “I’m quitting because I received ongoing abuse about being trans on X from several users and I’m fed up with it” (or whatever the reason was; I just guessed that).

Sorry rootless in this context means it doesn’t have a big window showing the whole remote desktop, instead each remote window shows up as if it were a local window. Nothing to do with the root account. Kind of confusing, sorry!

Not rootless as far as I can tell.