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  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Distro for a local "cloud gaming" no monitor desktop
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    5 months ago

    do you use Moonlight, Sunshine, SteamLink or something along those lines?

    My linux server is wired to the router, but I use SteamLink hardware with 5GHz wifi. I haven’t tried Moonlight & Sunshine, but I have tried a myriad of different hardware running the SteamLink app, but the SteamLink Hardware > RPI 4 > RPI 3 > CCwGTV. For me, the SteamLink hardware has always been reliable enough that I didn’t need to explore other options, but YMMV.

    I would strongly recommend that you disable Wayland and continue to use X for various reasons, but the three most important reasons:

    • Nvidia and X allow you to inject a custom EDID so an HDMI dongle isn’t necessary `Xconfig: (Option “CustomEDID” “GPU-0.DFP-3:/path/to/edid/file”)
    • Wayland doesn’t support disabling V-Sync (it may now), but if not, you really do not want V-Sync enabled when streaming
    • XWayland is gonna drop your performance 1-10% depending on the game and situation…

    If you end up switching to AMD GPU in the future, you still don’t have to have an HDMI dongle, but the AMD process of injecting an EDID is much less user friendly to the point where you will want an HDMI dongle. :-)

    I connect to my server via SSH and if I need to see the screen, RealVNC on my phone… no monitor, keyboard, or mouse connected except when I might want to update the BIOS or something.

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Distro for a local "cloud gaming" no monitor desktop
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    5 months ago

    SteamOS doesn’t support Nvidia even though Arch does

    You misunderstood what I wrote… (I could have worded it better), but I didn’t mean that SteamOS was a viable option; instead, I meant Manjaro (Arch) was a viable option.

    Not sure why someone down voted my post as it is technically sound, but to be 100% transparent, I’ve been running a headless linux Fedora server on Nvidia hardware for this very purpose (among others) since 2017.

    I would still strongly recommend that you use Ubuntu since that is what you are most comfortable with, but Fedora or Arch is viable as well.

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Distro for a local "cloud gaming" no monitor desktop
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    5 months ago

    Ease of setup including nvidia drivers

    Any mainstream distribution would relatively satisfy this requirement (Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu); however, Fedora might be slightly less amenable since it would require third-party repository RPM Fusion. Don’t get me wrong, it is a real simple process to add, but it can also cause some headaches.

    Ease of update via command line (I’m not going to download nvidia drivers from their website to update proprietary drivers)

    The best way to install the Nvidia driver is through your distribution’s system package manager. In fact, it is never recommended to download from Nvidia’s website. If you do, you’re flat out doing it the wrong way…

    Graphics performance

    The graphics performance will mostly be the same since you are using Nvidia and relying less on open source components; however, you still would want a distribution that is updated relatively frequently; therefore, I would suggest Fedora or Ubuntu.

    Keep in mind that SteamOS is based on Manjaro (Arch), so I’m sure it would be fine as well, but Arch based distributions are more “rolling” and can experience their own issues.

    Fedora has its own quirks as well; therefore, I would recommend hanging back one full release. For example, right now, Fedora 39 is the latest release and that means you should likely install and stay on Fedora 38 until Fedora 40 releases.

    Prefer Ubuntu based

    Your best option would be to use Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•AMD GPUs are cursed for me
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    5 months ago

    As a PSA, I see nothing wrong with your statement; however, if you’re trying to say my advice is wrong or flawed because Fedora is now running a kernel that has a problem… well, such is life, but my point still stands because now the entire fedora AMD community will likely rally behind the issue which wouldn’t have happened before.

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•AMD GPUs are cursed for me
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    5 months ago

    I’ve done some work with AMD and Nvidia that I shan’t disclose more of, but to be totally honest / transparent, my experiences with either of their internal workings was kind of eye opening in a not so good kind of way; however, that isn’t to say I distrust them or their work, because I could say that about several prominent Tech companies that most individuals would ordinarily think the best of. At the end of the day, I don’t think my experiences are 100% representational of an entire company, but after being in the industry for 23+ years… you kind of learn to stay away from that BCBS: if you know you know.

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•AMD GPUs are cursed for me
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    5 months ago

    You’re riding the edge too close. Fedora 39 hasn’t even moved to a 6.7 kernel yet – They’re on 6.6.14-200.

    If you’re running a newer kernel than the latest released Fedora, you better be a Linux guru or you’re gonna pay with pain, and thats coming from someone with 23+ years experience running / working on Linux and I have an AMD RX 7900 XTX

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which is better: Linux or GNU/Linux
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    9 months ago

    I’m about to step in it…

    There is no GNU/Linux OS; the FSF has never defined a base that demonstrates the GNU/Linux OS. All the FSF has done is loosely define guidelines that basically allows them to endorse any 100% free (libre), self-hosted, distribution that supports a 100% copy left license and does not promote in any way or auto install non-free or non-open software by default.

    Unfortunately for them this means that 99.99% of the Linux distributions out there do not qualify as GNU/Linux, even the ones like Debian, Red Hat, or Ubuntu that did adopt the GNU/Linux name scheme, because they all host, promote, or allow users access to non-free software in some way.

    Furthermore, here’s the real kicker, if someone decides to take one of the endorsed GNU/Linux distributions and modify it to run FISH instead of BASH, you would now have a GNU/Linux distribution that was incompatible with other GNU/Linux distributions but still identifiable as GNU/Linux.

    This is why FSF and their “GNU/Linux” scheme is just a stupid R. Stallman political stunt to make his life’s pursuit relevant; the movement tries to benefit from everyone else’s work without actually accomplishing the one thing they need to do which is to actually define what packages, versions, implementations are GNU/Linux.

    Ultimately what I am saying is that defining the guidelines is only half the solution; the other half is the FSF needs to define and maintain their own LSB (Linux Standard Base)

  • heartsofwar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which is better: Linux or GNU/Linux
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    9 months ago

    First gripe: Linux refers to the kernel only. Its not wrong to say, “I run Linux”, but that is very broad. For example, Android runs Linux too, but it is widely accepted that Android has deviated greatly from the Linux kernel base; something Google is slowly, some-what trying to resolve.

    Second gripe: GNU/Linux was a phrase R. Stallman wanted to use after his GNU OS idea continued to see / experience delays while the GNU tools were individually adopting popularity with other OSs. In my opinion, it was / is his way of trying to make his political choices as a staunch FSF (Free (libre) Software Foundation) advocate matter. The bottom line is that when you say “GNU/Linux” you might be qualifying that the system runs GNU tools on top of a Linux kernel, but where does it end? Today, you could just as easily try to say that “GNOME/Wayland/Systemd/GNU/Linux” is not the same as “GNOME/XOrg/sysvinit/GNU/Linux” or “KDE/Wayland/upstart/GNU/Linux”, etc. It is a little more nuanced than that as the GNU tools do tend to define slightly more compatibility due to the nature of encompassing some of the lowest level user tools, but the example is valid and it highlights how the nature of open source software is sort-of troublesome to apply differentiating labels above the kernel

    Third, Torvalds has gone on record many times stating that he doesn’t really see the appeal of the “GNU/Linux” scheme, but he does understand why some people think it is important.

    Last, my personal opinion is I say, “I run Fedora”, and if someone asks what that is, “its a Linux based general Operating System alternative to Windows”