Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
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Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#2Since this doesn't take over the desktop (per the FAQ) this sounds amazing for headless machines.
Shame it needs such a modern GPU and $feature which isn't offered by my preferred Alpine Linux. But that shouldn't detract from what it's promising.
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#3I’m not completely clear on how this differs from running Sunshine on a Linux box
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#4I’m not completely clear on how this differs from running Sunshine on a Linux box
This is perfect for someone who has a active desktop user and can still stream from that same PC to other clients in the house.
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#5I don't remember whether it was this or "sunshine", but game streaming from your own PC hasn't been the same since it was simply "turn on the Nvidia feature". It was way too difficult to figure out how to make it work the last time I tried and I gave up and haven't tried again since. For all the good they do otherwise, FOSS devs just never seem to get usability right.
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#6This is how people play Switch games on Wii U and 3DS. Emulate on PC and stream on the older systems
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#7I’m not completely clear on how this differs from running Sunshine on a Linux box
In the kindest way I can point this out, the README answered those questions in the Features and FAQ sections ("How does this compare to Sunshine?")
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#8Since this doesn't take over the desktop (per the FAQ) this sounds amazing for headless machines. Shame it needs such a modern GPU and $feature which isn't offered by my preferred Alpine Linux. But that shouldn't detract from what it's promising.
That's not too bad, being able to go all the way back to an RTX20XX or RX 6000 series is pretty old for the kind of person looking to stream some games.
If you go back much further your client device might just have enough horsepower to run the game you're trying to play without streaming at all!
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#9This is how people play Switch games on Wii U and 3DS. Emulate on PC and stream on the older systems
Makes sense, I wrote something in Rust a few years ago to allow multi-player netplay on any emulator and it was surprisingly easy to write
Re: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
#10> Moonshine runs each streaming session in its own isolated environment, separate from your desktop. This means your host PC stays usable while you stream, and it works without an active desktop session.
So does this create like a virtual desktop? How does that work? Is this just a separate "screen" or is this more like an entirely separate compositor instance (if thats the right term here)?