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8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates (slrpnk.net)

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

I just wish it worked on modern linux.

spent an entire weekend trying to get steam link to work only to find out it doesnt work on wayland.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 11 points 5 months ago

I give it eight months. Wayland support is getting better every week and some major distros plan to drop X11 by the end of the year.

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 5 months ago

Well, there's always the possibility of a Wayland compatibility upgrade. I know it's a lot, but these guys are nerds hard-core about this, and thank God for that, too.

[-] keefshape@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

~~Works great on AMD as well. I moved from a 2800 Super to an AMD 7900xt, and its almost latency free even at 4k on gigabit wired. Reasonable on WiFi, even across the house.~~

Wrong reply my bad

[-] keefshape@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Give Sunshine (host) and Moonlight (client) a try.

Haaaaaands down better quality and latency.

I would love to see Valve embrace these projects and integrate them for streaming in app at least, maybe even run on Links?

[-] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Ooh! I've been looking for something like this, but didn't know the right words to google.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

~~Does Sunshine/Moonlight only work on PCs that have Nvidia cards, or also those with AMD video cards?~~

Read further down to this comment that had a link to the product page and what it supported.

Thank you to those who had already responded.

[-] keefshape@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Works great on AMD as well. I moved from a 2800 Super to an AMD 7900xt, and its almost latency free even at 4k on gigabit wired. Reasonable on WiFi, even across the house.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 5 months ago

The Deck uses Wayland so that doesn't make sense. And I've definitely streamed to my laptop to test a few years ago and it worked well enough.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Steam Link is a piece of hardware in this case, not the software you are discussing (I would guess?).

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

neither work with wayland.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It probably doesn't work on your wayland compositor. Screencasting still is not part of protocol.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

One of the primary reasons for moving to Wayland is it's native security when it comes to screen sharing. To properly screen share you need xdg-desktop-portal installed. You should then get a selection window on the server side asking which window you want to share over the steam link session with the client.

A lot of people just use moonlight/sunshine now though instead of steamlink.