There’s an interesting article published a couple days ago about future plans for Valve: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/6/24315098/valve-steam-machines-steamos-steam-deck-vr Sounds like they really are working on a standalone console, exciting times!

Thanks for the kind works! It’s really appreciated

Thanks mate! It has been a long road but we’ve finally got something that seems to work across a lot of different HWs, so it was time to pin it down into a release.

Yeah we definitely overlap a little with Kasm, our main focus is gaming with out of the box support for Steam, Proton and proper joypad with Rumble, Gyro and Acceleration (a first in Linux!).

Plus, as you said, we are 100% open source and community based, there’s no company behind us and no monetization whatsoever. 😉

I’m glad you like it! Have fun!

It’s fairly simple actually, the basic idea is to create multiple desktops from a single host; fully HW accelerated and isolated from each other. So for example I could stream a game to my couch TV whilst someone else is playing a different game on the very same computer.

Personally I use this on my homelab: the same machine that has got Jellyfin (and other containers) installed can share the GPU with Wolf so that I can both transcode with HW acceleration when needed and play a game or open up a remote desktop all from one single machine.

Not fully open source and trying to get paid subscriptions even before having a product doesn’t sound too good to me…

I’m currently playing Batman Arkam Knight after buying at a huge discount last week. It works flawlessly on Deck and it looks gorgeous even on the small screen, the game is also great fun; absolutely recommended!

Unfortunately Windows is not supported at the moment, I’m not even sure it’s possible to implement what we currently have in Linux.
With time, we can probably explore other platforms as well.

That’s exactly the use case, virtual HW accelerated desktops isolated from the host.
There’s practically no performance hit apart from a young codebase that probably needs more testing and polishing…

Shameless plug: Wolf is an alternative to Sunshine that allows you to run multiple simultaneous stream via Docker

Thanks, I wasn’t expecting everyone to take this so seriously, it was supposed to be funny…

Thanks for your high value contribution to this tread!

Well now it’s becoming kind of a challenge: will AWS terminate/migrate the instance at some point, or will I be forced to reboot?

It’s not internet facing and no port is opened, all it does is fire up a notification if/when something doesn’t reply.

Even in the unlikely scenario that someone gain access to it (nobody did in the last ~4 years) that means that my VPN is already compromised and I’ve got bigger problems to worry about.

Just installed, it looks much better compared to 102 without removing any functionality. I love it!

Sounds super interesting, thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely check it out later!

Quick question: are both docker and fs based on top of ssh or are there any more requirements? For example, do you expect the docker socket to be available over the network or do you open an ssh connection and then access the docker socket from there?

Thanks for all the tips, this is exactly the kind of things I was looking for that I wasn’t thinking about. I guess I’ll go with 3/4U since it looks like it’s the easy solution to fit everything in.

The last question I’ve got is about the Sata backplate that some of them have in the front, is that compatible with any home PSU/Motherboard or does that require some special HW? I guess for SAS I would need an additional PCI card in order to support it, right?

Thanks, that’s very helpful! I couldn’t find much on Amazon but I can find some different retailers with better googling…
I guess the fans can be easily replaced since they seem normal-sized but now I’m wondering about the PSU, it looks like only some 4U can accommodate an ATX power supply but that would limit my choice immensely.
Are there any “server shaped” PSUs (how are they called?) that are also silent?

I would like to give it a go anyway even if it’ll end up not meeting the WAR! I quite like the idea of having it all in an enclosed and tied up space…