Sunshine VS xrdp

You can also use Sunshine as a game streaming server: https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine And Moonlight as a client: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt

GitHub: https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine/releases

Try x11vnc, or maybe Sunshine/Moonlight

You can use AMD/Intel also without problems. Just use https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine for the server / host PC. Been using this for quite a while, Linux desktop with AMD as host, nVidia shield with moonlight as client.

this might be worth a shot (if you’re looking for a way to do “full” OSS Moonlight) https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine

Currently, whats working best for me is using Sunshine as the stream server hosting games or media, and the Moonlight clients wherever. The moonlight protocol is an open implementation of a Geforce streaming protocol, but it works fine with Radeon cards (I use one). There are clients for Android, Linux and Windows. I use the embedded client on my RaspberryPi 3B+ for 1080p/60 gaming in my living room. The latency is very low, but I wouldn't use it for fast reaction gaming.

Try Sunshine - https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine It is an open source implementation of GameStream host. It will work with Moonlight client.

I am thinking about installing a GUI, steam, and maybe a streaming app like Sunshine so I can play games on my laptop, phone, and TV that has a raspberry pi connected. I know it's unconventional to have a GUI and games on a otherwise standard NAS and docker server. I do plan to keep the scope limited to games and streaming - I won't use it as a web browser or any other day to day activities.

xrdp

Or maybe it could be done through xrdp somehow?

Part of the reason that RDP isn't better is because it's not an open protocol, part of the reason is because the protocol was built to present a desktop environment that isn't remotely like xorg or Wayland. A lot of the reason is that the RDP project just doesn't get enough effort, because people have multiple ways of sharing desktops, and RDP is just one of them. If you would like to fix that, here's the (currently) 274 open bugs against the Linux attempt to implement RDP https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues

Check out xrdp. You can connect then via any rdp client.

If you're willing to compile there are patches to xrdp to include some performance improvements that make a huge difference (more modern codecs). Tracking issue with instructions is here https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1422 it's quite long, so I'd start reading closer to the bottom. Performance has been really good in my testing.

This may help. https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/2034

Indeed, this was... 2002? or so (xrdp)[http://www.xrdp.org/] was still not available.

So... just use Remote Desktop. A popular open source version of RDP is XRDP, which is packaged and available for installation on most popular distributions. Just install it, let it start up the xrdp service, and then connect to it just like it was a Windows server. That's it.