FWIW, on a fresh Ubuntu LTS 22.04.3 this same call is

 564.412 ms [ 2932] | glXChooseVisual();

which is still ... not fast ... but one second faster than on Fedora 39.

Alas, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, a fully rolling distribution, also gets to that very very annoying 1.7 seconds overhead / delay.

Finally, forcing software rendering completely eradicates these startup delays, but then that's software rendering.

I'd expect from all this that the VMware driver infrastructure and newer versions of the X11 server (in rolling distribution) do not interact well.

A fix would be very much appreciated for those who do their work _inside_ X11-based Linux distributions.