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Playnite
Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.
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rustdesk
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
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nvidia-patch
This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
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InvokeAI
Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.
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GlosSI
Discontinued Tool for using Steam-Input controller rebinding at a system level alongside a global overlay
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IddSampleDriver
Add virtual monitors to your windows 10 device! Works with Oculus software, obs, and any desktop sharing software
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Hence, a higher number means a better Sunshine alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-17.
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Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal
If you already have a gaming desktop, I can recommend Shield for both. Streaming services work out of the box of course. Then I use Sunshine[1] on my desktop to stream to Moonlight on the Shield. Both have wired ethernet connections. Latency is not noticeable in most cases.
[1]: https://app.lizardbyte.dev/Sunshine/
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How to enhance your network with transparent Wake-on-LAN capabilities
Game streaming — Streaming from your own gaming rig via Moonlight and Sunshine or Apollo? Desomnia ensures the system only runs while someone is actually playing. It also integrates with Duo to start streaming instances when a client connects and stop them when the last session ends.
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Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
If you really want to play games with anti-cheat you could also try cloud gaming, or to be exact Nvidia's Geforce Now - because most of the smaller cloud gaming services like Shadow PC and Boosteroid simply run Windows Virtual Machines with GPU passthrough on which kernel level anti cheat... you guessed it... does not work.
Nvidia is publically advertising that five games from the Call of Duty series (notoriously known for their kernel level anti cheat) and Battlefield 1, 4, 5, 6 and 2042 (same) are able to run on Geforce Now.
There's even a native client for Linux thanks to their recent Steam Deck support (you only need to convince it that it's running on SteamOS lol which is quite easy thanks to Google, and you should be pretty much good to go).
Another option would be Moonlight/Sunshine (https://moonlight-stream.org/, https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) but that requires you to have a beefy game PC or server w/ decent GPU next to your Linux machine to host the games.
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Show HN: I built a FOSS tool to run your Steam games in the Cloud
I wanted to play my Steam games but my aging PC couldn’t keep up, so I built Cloudy Pad - a tool to run Steam in the Cloud (GitHub: https://github.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad)
It runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway and Paperspace with various cost optimizations and safeties:
- Cost alerts
- Auto stop inactive instances to avoid unwanted cost
- Disk snapshots and data cleanup for cost efficiency
- Spot instance support
Under the hood: a Linux VM and a container running Sunshine (a streaming server https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) with Steam. Most Windows games work just fine thanks to Proton.
It streams effortlessly at 1080p 100+ FPS - I recently played Baldur’s Gate III and Clair Obscur in Ultra, ran like a breeze.
Cost-wise it’s great for occasional players: ~30h or less per month typically cost less than 25$. Though admittedly for heavy gamers it may be less cost-effective due to cloud pricing.
I’d love feedback from the HN community !
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Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link
AFAIK the NVFBC patch is no longer required for new Sunshine versions thanks to https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/pull/2471.
However, NVIDIA say that "The NvFBC desktop capture library does not have native Wayland support and does not work with Xwayland" (https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/565.77/R...), so I guess it's of no use for Wayland users.
- Sunshine: Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
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Moonlight
Maybe worth mentioning the ppen source server side component as well since it is unclear how long gamestream will continue to work? : https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine
Worked like a charm for me in 4k
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Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
> I’m sure there’s a way to transmit those frames over a network if one was clever enough
Something like Sunshine[1], coupled with Moonlight[2]?
[1] https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine
[2] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt
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LizardByte/Sunshine is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Sunshine is C++.
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