My Plans for Win 10 EOL (midwest.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by awesomesauce309@midwest.social to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Hello, I’m not a total Linux noob, but I’m not sure what my plan is for windows 10s shutter, and I’m not going to 11. I have a PC exclusively for games with an nvidia gpu.

My dream setup works something like a headless gaming pc: I keep my tower on my desk with some monitors and mkb, then run Ethernet all over, and I can stream the tower to: my deck, my phone, a steam link, thin client etc. Then I could get a steam link for my driving sim and send it over there, maybe add in a flight sim later with another steam link. Is this possible?

Hurdles:

can I still run halo/microsoft games easily? Rocket league? I don’t want to reconfigure every game after every patch.
What distro would be best?
Can it switch to the right resolution for what I’m streaming to? I have 16:9, 21:9, steam deck and my phone to contend with. When I tried moonlight it always swapped to the plugged in monitor resolution instead.
Can it output 4K120hz over the Ethernet?
Good option for steam link devices?
Can I stream outside the home with Tailscale

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[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's no need to go headless on the Linux workstations, I don't, although I do build the system myself from headless to keep the bloat down. X11 and awesomewm/i3 is like, 100-300mb of ram with modern necessities included

I use the Linux workstations with awesomewm for 99.9% of my computing needs, moonlight only comes out to connect to the gaming PC

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To expand, my main workstation is a $180 eBay used Dell that I slapped a 3050 in. Tower in its entirety cost <$400 and realistically, I only needed the GPU because I have a 4k/240hz main display, and 4 total.

[-] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

This fall I will finally have the space to leave my driving sim unfolded, or get a better one… 🤑 what is your sim setup? Do you have VR too?

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have a sim or VR, I purely use keyboard/mouse/controller/fight sticks across my various setups

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