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I have a Linux desktop PC in my basement, which I tend to use to play more recent games, as it has a reasonably powerful, dedicated NVidia GPU. However, I am wondering if there is a viable way to stream such a game in Linux over wifi from the desktop to a less-powerful laptop elsewhere in the house?

I am aware of the networking capabilities of X, which allows you to run an application on one machine, but have it display and take input from a window running on another machine (which can be done, for example, using ssh tunneling). There are also remote-desktop technologies like VNC.

However, games running at 30+ FPS with a fairly high resolution would need a lot of bandwidth. I know Steam has a 'home streaming' system, which I believe it uses video compression technology to compress the video stream to improve performance. Can anything similar be done using freely-available Linux technology?

So, I guess the question boils down to whether you can 'forward' an X application to another machine, with some sort of audio/video compression? A full remote desktop would probably not be a good solution, as it would be wasting a lot of bandwidth on unnecessary DE stuff.

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Both X11 forwarding and VNC are ill advised for the task as they were never designed to forward fast changing full screen rich images. Please try using Steam Remote Play instead.

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  • Thanks for your reply; however, I am aware of Steam Remote Play. So, really I am asking whether a similar thing can be done with general Linux tools, without using Steam. I can edit my question, if you felt that wasn't clear. Personally, I am not a fan of Steam - I use gog.com, as I don't like DRM. So, it sounds like the answer might be 'no'. Commented Aug 15, 2020 at 20:24
  • I haven't heard of similar implementations in Linux. Despite its fame there are a lot of areas in Linux where it doesn't offer any tools/software comparable to what is available for proprietary OSes like Windows and Mac OS X. Commented Aug 16, 2020 at 13:45

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