Steven Edwards skrev: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ove Kaaven <o...@arcticnet.no> wrote: >> Sure it might be confusing, because that's not how the logic goes in the >> Microsoft world. Over there, the big machine acting as Terminal Server >> thing is the server, and the Remote Desktop client, which provides the >> actual display, is the client... while on X11, it's the complete >> opposite. I'm not going to pretend that it couldn't be confusing. > > The whole X11 client/server discussion was touched on in the Unix > Haters Handbook chapter on X11. I think that reference proves the > merit of the argument.
Hmm. Well, I'll take your word for it, I haven't read that and don't plan to, since I'm quite happy with Unix and X11 myself. (Its logic also does make sense to me these days, though that doesn't mean I always understood its architecture. It looks like there's a learning curve to these things, which is why I know it could be confusing to people. Doesn't mean I don't like it. Often, I like confusing stuff.)