Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming

• Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Used to do this. I had issues with either the audio or the video feed randomly dying, though, so I ended up finding a way to make HDMI+USB work when I moved.

  More reliable, but now that I’m starting to think about reorganizing my office, copper will no longer do for 4K120 as that’ll go over the 5-meter limit. And an optical high bandwidth HDMI+USB isn’t cheap.

  Upsides and downsides…

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could go with displayPort which doesn’t seem to have that 5m recommendation

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    • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sadly TVs with DisplayPort support are very rare, and mine is not one of them.

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• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TL;DR: yep

  I use steam remote play. I’ve got a mini pc in my garage, another in my living room, and a third in my bedroom. There’s CAT 6 between my office and bedroom but the rest is wireless.

  I spent more than I had to because I wanted all of them to be able to play less intense games like Hollow Knight and some emulation locally so if I have family and friends over we can have 3 games going at a time.

  It’s one of the few PC tinkering projects I’ve taken on outside of work in the last several years because I’ve grown to mostly hate it. But this was super satisfying because I ended up with something that I could enjoy alone and with family.

  I beat Shadow of the Erdtree on the one in the living room so it can’t be too terrible. I probably wouldn’t advise it for anyone wanting to play competitively but for casual gamers, couch co-op, RPGs, or friendly online games I can highly recommend this kind of setup.

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love Moonlight. I just switched over to Linux and haven’t gotten my Moonlight host set up yet. But it’s on my to-do list. What do you use to stream it? I’m rocking a Powkiddy RGB30. The square screen squishes stuff a little, but it’s pretty cool to run Astroneer on something so tiny.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I stream to either my Bazzite HTPC or my Steam Deck.

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    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, interesting. I was not familiar with Bazzite. I have a tiny Dell Optiplex hooked up to my living room TV, I was going to put Linux on there soon anyways. I wonder if that would be a good candidate for Bazzite.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m literally using Bazzite right now as a daily driver on my laptop, and it’s amazing.

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      • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Either Bazzite or ChimeraOS work well for HTPC setups.

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