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Looking for an in home streqming solution (programming.dev)
submitted 23 hours ago by Matty_r@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Hey all, I've got an under powered laptop that I would like to stream Steam games to from my main PC (main PC has an AMD 9070XT, laptop has something like an Nvidia 1660). What I need to do is still be able to use my main PC while streaming to the laptop at the same time.

I've looked at solutions like moonlight, and I don't recall it worked very well or didnt support having a virtual display. I don't know that this is possible on Linux, but seems to be pretty easy to do on Windows.

What are my options here? Is it even viable to have a fully usable desktop while also utilising the GPU to stream games elsewhere?

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[–] Bryan065@kbin.earth 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

instead of sunshine, try apollo.

https://github.com/ClassicOldSong/Apollo

it's a branch of sunshine but supports virtual displays (and some other stuff).

i can launch moonlight on any of my clients (phone - 2316x1080, laptop - 2880x1800, laptop connected monitor - 2560x1440p) and the virtual monitor will spawn and match the client resolution automatically.

when I disconnect, the resolution will revert back to the desktop connected monitor.

this won't let you use your desktop while streaming games elsewhere though. You'll need to do VM's or Docker+wolf for something like that.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Looks like a non-starter

Currently Virtual Display support is Windows only, Linux support is planned and will be implemented in the future.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh, the virtual monitor is working on Linux now? Last I checked that was Windows only