What do people use Xfree86 for?

[fred <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>]

Hello,

I just ran Xfree86.  Very, very nice.
Just like sitting on the sun boxes
at school.  All the twm setup files
and Xresources work the same.  It was
so alike (and tons faster) that I got
carried away and starting to invoke
apps like I do from school.  That's
where the similarity ended.  All the
apps fired up outside of Xwindows.
That's OK, my relationship with windows
is one of like-hate.  It has some pretty
handy features, but I tear my head off
about some things.

But, given that cygwin's X runs within
Windows, and any apps you invoke fire
up in MS windows (that's the way it
should be because the apps were written
to use the MS windows features), what
do people actually use X for?  I've
found that despite the mighty coolness,
all I do is open up an xterm and start
an ssh tunnel to school, with port
forwarding.  Then I do everything else
from MS windows.  With the virtual
scrolling of the touchpad, and the
rather effortless cut-and-paste, I
don't mind it at all.  But it sort of
makes me wonder....why?

Fred

P.S.  This is not a knock down of X
on cygwin, I think it's really cool.
It's astounding that it was even
possible.  I'm wondering if I'm not
making as much use of it as I could.