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Comment by KetoManx64 | Hacker News Reader

How am I supposed to ask for permission from IT to install Steam or gaming related tools like Moonshine just to use a code editor?

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By explaining the advantages over "older" methods. A lot of people use Moonlight/Sunshine for non gaming related stuff, specially considering than the alternatives are all proprietary.

They're productivity tools, not gaming software. You'll be faster and deal with less errors using the correct optimized remote desktop tool for your job, versus what you're using now, which can be slow and error prone.

> Moonlight

> Open source game streaming client

> Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device

OK, fine, maybe Sunshine will be different.

> Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

Maybe not.

Sunshine and Moonlight are no more than accelerated and finely tuned VNC servers that happen to be targeted at gaming. You can totally set them up as a regular remote desktop solution.

Right, but I'm saying their sites make it very clear that they're meant for gaming, so GGP may indeed have a hard time convincing corporate IT that they're for work.

My post was answering the question of how they should ask for permission to use it. You pitch it as productivity software that helps you do your job better.

Every part of this sentence made me so sad.

Your company trusts you to write code but not run code?

It is for protection against rootkits, not to be nanny to the employees.

It's a free Parsec alternative.

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