Design failures

For example, all X11 clients crash when the server goes down.

When was the last time your browser crashed because a server was down? Or your irc client? Or whatever else there is except for X11 programs? Yeah, that's right.

Why they wouldn't just wait for the server to come up again and reconnect is beyond me. I mean it's a client-server system, so what's the point of not making use of it? Sure, you can connect from some remote machine and play around for a bit, but it's fucking useless when all your programs crash once you disconnect!!!

What the fuck were they thinking?

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Only in that normally servers are "powerful" and clients are not, but with X11 the clients generally run on more powerful systems and the servers on less (since all the "server" does is wait for instructions on what to draw and then draw them; the client does all the actual work of the program to determine what to draw.)