• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    6 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.

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      6 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
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        6 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.

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          6 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

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      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?

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        6 months ago

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

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        6 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.

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          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.

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      6 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.

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      6 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.