Linux Gaming

15917 readers

22 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.

Recommended news sources:

Related chat:

Related Communities:

Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Steam/play from computer to TV (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 1 year ago by zipkag to c/[email protected]

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have steam up and running on my main daily driver ( currently endeavour OS, but I also have a dual boot to a Windows with steam also working if needed, but just about everything I'm playing lately is working great on Linux).

I have a TV connected to a older HP PC that acts as my media center. It runs Kodi on Linux mint. Both computers are wired ethernet connected. Is there a way I can stream/play games from my daily driver to my computer that's connected to the TV? Is there a Kodi add-on I could use? Do I just need to install steam on my Linux mint? I don't have a steam link device. I did some brief reading on steam remote play and it looks like that's more designed to share with others not just stream from my own account to another computer.

Currently My daily driver is actually close enough to my TV that I could even have a keyboard/controller connected to the daily driver and just stream the video if that was better. But in the future I may want to rearrange rooms, so ideally I guess it would be best to have the controller through my HTPC as well.

Any advice on how to best approach this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a look at moonlight game streaming. I use it since years and it offers very low latency and great quality. It uses the same protocol as steam link, but far better. It's natively for Nvidia cards but for amd there is a sunshine (?) called client for the host. You can use moonlight on windows, Linux, Android, I personally run it on a raspi. I'm a huge fan and haven't had the need to look for different solutions since.

[–] zipkag 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Awesome, I'm going to look into this, thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh BTW I use it as mstsc remote desktop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ive used sunshine and moonlight as well as steam and steam link.

Both work good. I have an Nvidia card. Fwiw.