This is so sad. Every time I boot up Plan9 for fun I'm reminded their remoting solution (drawterm) does graphics just fine (since everything is just files, and graphics is done by writing to a software framebuffer device file).

Sure, it's something you can do with SSH via X11 forwarding since forever, but it seems the ecosystem never quite stuck the landing, and now we're here trying to figure out how to make CLI more like GUI for our own sanity.

Maybe we should give it another shot? It seems Windows is trying to do something similar with WSLg to achieve seamless integration of Linux apps within Windows 11 (using RDP under the hood), what is everyone else doing?