• Eiri@lemmy.ca
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        Used to do this. I had issues with either the audio or the video feed randomly dying, though, so I ended up finding a way to make HDMI+USB work when I moved.

        More reliable, but now that I’m starting to think about reorganizing my office, copper will no longer do for 4K120 as that’ll go over the 5-meter limit. And an optical high bandwidth HDMI+USB setup isn’t cheap.

        Upsides and downsides…

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            12 days ago

            Sadly TVs with DisplayPort support are very rare, and mine is not one of them.

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        TL;DR: yep

        I use steam remote play. I’ve got a mini pc in my garage, another in my living room, and a third in my bedroom. There’s CAT 6 between my office and bedroom but the rest is wireless.

        I spent more than I had to because I wanted all of them to be able to play less intense games like Hollow Knight and some emulation locally so if I have family and friends over we can have 3 games going at a time.

        It’s one of the few PC tinkering projects I’ve taken on outside of work in the last several years because I’ve grown to mostly hate it. But this was super satisfying because I ended up with something that I could enjoy alone and with family.

        I beat Shadow of the Erdtree on the one in the living room so it can’t be too terrible. I probably wouldn’t advise it for anyone wanting to play competitively but for casual gamers, couch co-op, RPGs, or friendly online games I can highly recommend this kind of setup.

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        I love Moonlight. I just switched over to Linux and haven’t gotten my Moonlight host set up yet. But it’s on my to-do list. What do you use to stream it? I’m rocking a Powkiddy RGB30. The square screen squishes stuff a little, but it’s pretty cool to play Astroneer on something so tiny.

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            Oh, interesting. I was not familiar with Bazzite. I have a tiny Dell Optiplex hooked up to my living room TV, I was going to put Linux on there soon anyways. I wonder if that would be a good candidate for Bazzite.

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              I’m literally using Bazzite right now as a daily driver on my laptop, and it’s amazing. It is more gaming-oriented though, so I don’t know if there’s a better distro if you’re using it for just TV

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      While the post is clearly a shitpost, and the arguments in their provided form are not entirely valid, they could be altered to be valid.

      Purpose-built devices will always have advantages over generic “do everything” devices. A modern smartphone can do everything, but you still have MP3/FLAC players, DSLR cameras, calculators, etc. Similarly, a PC can do everything, but there are still TV sticks, gaming consoles, tablets, etc.

      PC can’t be as low-friction as a console for gaming. To start playing all you need to do is pick up the controller, press the Home button, TV comes on and you’re back where you left off. All the games in the store are 100% compatible with 0 settings manipulations.

      Now, you could build a PC for the sole purpose of playing games on it, and come fairly close to the experience. But you’re gonna spend more and put a lot of effort into it.
      Some issues you might encounter:

      • picking and installing the right OS
      • hardware/software compatibility
      • controller support
      • seamless sleep/wake
      • lack of HDMI CEC protocol to control the TV

      Whereas a console is a plug-and-play tailored experience that guarantees all of the above to not be an issue.

      TL;DR: You can’t just plug your PC to a TV and expect the same result as playing on a console. It will take much more work to get there.

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      Can confirm, is how I do it.

      I have a PS4 too, but ever since I got a good PC compatible controller, I only use the console for Rock Band when my best friend comes over 🤷

      PC is better, PC with controller is best.