Is anyone using Linux + Proton for in-home streaming?
I'm seriously considering to completely ditch Windows 10 and move my gaming to PS4/5 + Linux/Proton, but I still want to be able to stream games from the game PC to the steam link in the living room. Does this work just as well with Linux/Proton as Windows?
Yup.
One recent (well, not recent, it's been like 6 months) issue is that after about 1h30min-1h50min the sound from the PC (XFCE Manjaro) corrupts (starts to crackle and gets worse until unbearable). The only fix I have been able to come up with so far, is to cut the connection to steam link, reset pulseaudio and reconnect to the steam link.
Very annoying issue that's being discussed on Github, but not necessarily addressed, as it's probably very hard to triage.
It works well, yes. However I can't compare with Windows since I don't have any Windows install anymore, so probably you need to get a comment from someone who dual boots!
Yeah I've had it running and streaming! Have run a few games this was - ARMA3, GTAV, South Park: Stick of Truth. All worked well.
Have also tried running the windows steam client in WINE and had a few more issues, but as ever YMMV.
The performance isn't quite as good (very close to windows perf levels), but quite a few anti-cheat systems will not work in Proton (even less so in WINE).
> quite a few anti-cheat systems will not work in Proton
A lot of interesting "hacks" (sorry for calling gaming on Linux a hack) are made impractical by this.
Another is that you can buy a miner's GPU (no video output, but much cheaper) and modify the drivers to route video through integrated graphics VO. Or, modify drivers to support SLI on any nvidia card. These driver modifications require running Windows in a special mode, which triggers anti-cheats. Maybe there's a way around that. Haven't heard of it being attempted on Linux. By the way, these driver modifications are just removing artificial restrictions.
I'm perfectly ok with some games not running as well as Windows, or not even running at all, in particular if I could also play them on console. I was more worried that Proton would not work reliably with streaming at all because it has to go through all these hoops to get an image on the screen in the first place. But it seems this is possible, which is great.
Games with anti-cheat not working doesn't bother me either as I don't play any games online anyway. So the intersection between 'games I play' and 'games that need anti-cheat' is very small ;-)
I'm seriously considering to completely ditch Windows 10 and move my gaming to PS4/5 + Linux/Proton, but I still want to be able to stream games from the game PC to the steam link in the living room. Does this work just as well with Linux/Proton as Windows?