djdarren

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

We have had the same PC streaming to Moonlight in the past, but that was back when it was running Windows. Also, we only had a 1080 TV then. Even downscaling Moonlight to 720 didn't really seem to make much difference.

Not being able to stream isn't really the end of the world, but it would be nice if I could work it out.

 

I've recently resurrected my partner's old gaming PC by wiping the Windows install and putting Kubuntu on it. It's a reasonably old machine at this point, but it's still capable enough to play games like Red Dead 2 without any issues.

It's running an AMD 8120 3.10Ghz CPU, with an Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU, with 16Gb RAM.

The GPU happens to be the minimum spec for Cyberpunk, which runs pretty well on it. I have the Nvidia drivers installed and everything seems ok in that regard.

The trouble comes when I try to stream it to, well, anything other than its own screen. With both Steamlink and Sunshine/Moonlight it's unplayable. If/when a game does finally load, it runs at a good 5fps.

I'm pretty new to Linux gaming, so don't really know where to start, so also don't really know what questions I need to ask in the first place.

So yeah, which are the best guides to look at to figure out how best to optimise my setup?

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I was merrily listening to Apple Music via WinApps the other day, when the Windows guest threw up a notification that it hadn't found any malware. Literally no way to dismiss it without quitting out of any WinApps I had open.

Good old Windows.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I have WinApps running on the little Dell PC I have at work. It's only an i3 with 8Gb RAM, but it's ok with Apple Music and MS Office apps. I wouldn't want to seriously run any games through it, mind.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

🎶I fucked your mooooom 🎶

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Has he seen your O face?

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Get a Kobo. Read the book, click the buttons that take you to another book.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

These days that's not far off the truth.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago

Dankpods has gone in on Linux too. He did a video about building a Bazzite PC a couple of weeks back.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We were promised sunlit uplands, so surely it's just a matter of time, right?

Right?

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Uh huh, uh huh

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I use Soulseek along with a little command line tool to download all the music for my radio show. It's an absolute joy to use.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always felt bad for Hello Games. They were a small team making what was essentially an indie game, but for one reason or another, No Man's Sky built up waaaaay more hype than they had presumably anticipated. I was part of that hype, because as a huge fan of 65daysofstatic I was really looking forward to hearing what they did for it.

So Sony picked up on the hype and marketed the everloving shit out of it, leaving Hello in a position where they had to deliver what was by that being considered a AAA game with an indie team. And of course, they came up short. How could they not.

That whole debacle was Sony's fault, but Hello have spent the past ten years making amends for it.

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