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X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Post by int_19h »

pjmlp wrote: post #6
lerpapoo wrote: post #3

windows on linux or linux on windows...WHO will WIN?

This is nothing new, I have used X Windows servers on Windows all the way back to 1999, there are quite a few to choose from. If anything the amount to choose from went down not up, slowly replaced by RDP clients. So that tells who will will win.

That might change with WSL drastically increasing the demand for such a thing. With enough resources, doing it as an X server is the better approach because it gives more flexibility - top-level windows can be shown directly on the host desktop etc. And with enough demand, there are resources for something like X410...

I've used both Xrdp and X410 for my WSL UI needs, and so far X140 has been a much better experience by far.

Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Post by cookiecaper »

ahupp wrote: post #17
joyfulmantis wrote: post #9

They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…

I bought it for $10 ("$40 off") and that's still how its listed for me. I never tried the other free options but reviews online were consistent that X410 was good. I've been happy with it.

Same, that was probably at least a year ago. For all intents and purposes, it's $10.

I've also been pretty happy with it, and substantive new features are added regularly. There's a couple little annoyances from the design assumption that the user's main interest is WSL, but for the most part, it's been much smoother than the other X11-for-Win32 variants.

Support was recently added for listening on a hyperv vsock, but again, it assumes that you're using Windows on the hardware and connecting to a virtualized Linux. The vsock-win32 driver for KVM is supposedly coming soon and then it will be fun to explore just reversing the tunnel and see what we can get done that way.

Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Post by oefrha »

joyfulmantis wrote: post #9

They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…

Sorry to break it to you, but there’s nothing immoral about repackaging open source software (even if there’s no value-add at all, which is not true in this case) and trying to make a living out of it, as long as it respects the license of the project being repackaged.

On a more personal note, I checked out your profile and you don’t seem to be contributing to open source much, so maybe first try to bring us something revolutionary (or not) yourself.

Edit: Okay, let me expand. As an actual honest-to-god contributor to open source (as in my work is used by at least tens of thousands of people), I’m tired of shallow dismissal of commercial software in the name of open source, especially when said dismissal comes from someone who’s just an open source leecher.

Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Post by reanimus »

I've been using VcXsrv to run remmina on my desktop for a while now, but it's been having issues where windows will disappear and won't return without relaunching. I'm giving this a spin to see if it works; if it does, I'll happily fork over ten bucks for it. :)

Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Post by sz4kerto »

I wanted to buy this but MS Store asks me to 'associate an address with my profile', then shows a dialog where I can only select US addresses. I already have a non-US address assoc'd with my MS account, so I don't know what am I doing wrong.

Edit: nevermind, I had to change the store region on the web. I hate this :)

Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

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Post by crispinb »

joyfulmantis wrote: post #9

They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…

As others have said, it's normally on sale for less. Back when I was using Windows, I found it much less troublesome than the alternatives coupled with WSL, and it's well documented and comes with decent support. It was well worth the $ for me.
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