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Moonlight + Sunshine for a self hosted solution (streaming), works with every OS

server: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/

client: https://github.com/moonlight-stream

I use self-hosted Apache Guacamole (RDP) through a reverse proxy with Google SSO (oauth2-proxy[0]). So easy to access my desktop from virtually any browser (mobile isn't the best though). This would be a good solution for gaming, but for other activities RDP is unbeatable imo.

[0] https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

Oh this is specifically for game streaming! Might be nice to stream to the living room tv setup.

Do you have any experience with it? Any major bugs or issues?

I’ve used it in the past and the results were pretty decent. I strongly recommend hardwiring everything to avoid stutters. Tried it over WiFi a couple of times, and it worked well for more moderate games, but heavy particles and things would cause things to turn garbled for a few seconds. Then again, 6E and the like didn’t exist when I used it so if your access point has the throughput it might not be a problem anymore.

I started using it just recently, so far so good, latency is pretty low and it's all configurable, I mainly use it for desktop usage, mostly programming windows/mac specific stuff (graphics stuff)

I've had a great experience with simply TailScale and RDP. Add Duo 2FA to RDP if you like.

Anyone know if this be more responsive than an RDP-over-VPN solution?

When I connect to a computer on another continent, RDP kinda sucks. Teamviewer is more responsive, but it's not great either.

I use a ton of RDP over high latency low bandwidth connections. I think it works great. The pain points are application UIs that insist on doing fade effects or animations. That crap makes an RDP connection highly unusable. Using a browser across RDP to access any "modern" website is an exercise in frustration because of this.

It's meant for gaming with minimal input lag, so I suspect it would be better but much higher bandwidth usage too.

RDP is generally the best for low bandwidth (at least with a windows host) because it sends only the updated elements of the UI.

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