Mercurius lets you sit at the powerful workstation back in the office, whether you're physically there or reaching it from a laptop on the road. Your real machine — the one with all your files, tools, and history — stays where it belongs. Secure and safely backed up. The laptop allows you to use your real computer as if you were there, not a pale shadow of it, but holds nothing of value itself.
That workstation — the one that's been growing with you for years — has the CPU, storage, and GPU that no laptop can match. Mercurius gives you that power wherever you are, without copying files, syncing to SharePoint, or wrestling with VPNs.
Your office computer remains exactly what it is: the authoritative environment with all your data and tools. Mercurius simply allows you to use it from across the network, so you can work from it seamlessly, securely, and with all its windows, focus, and structure. For organisations, this means simpler support, centralised data, and secure remote access without VPNs or fragile desktop‑sharing tools.
X11 showed that network-transparent workstations could feel native, not emulated. Wayland made local graphics flawless by design. Mercurius brings those strengths together in a clean protocol built for modern GPUs, fast networks, and zero-trust security — the graphical successor to SSH for those who still believe in Big Computers.
This is a work in progress. Read the Draft RFC, follow development in the Git repository, or contact mercurius@tebibyte.org.