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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

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?

Tyr42 6y ago
I've streamed native linux games no problem. I'm not sure if I was streaming proton.
ekianjo 6y ago
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! By the way you can also stream PS4 games to your Linux Desktop with Chiaki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afc_V73_3w&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afc_V73_3w&feature=emb_logo
narcolepsy 6y ago
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).
- dmos62 6y ago
  > 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.
- w0utert 6y ago
  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 ;-)
himinlomax 6y ago
Tried a couple times, seemed to work just fine, but I don't have much of a use for it.
throwaway77384 6y ago
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. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6749#issuecomment-611207469 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6749...
captn3m0 6y ago
OBS works. Steam also has broadcasting, but it is currently broken in the stable linux release: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5275 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5275

Tyr42 6y ago

I've streamed native linux games no problem. I'm not sure if I was streaming proton.

ekianjo 6y ago

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! By the way you can also stream PS4 games to your Linux Desktop with Chiaki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afc_V73_3w&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afc_V73_3w&feature=emb_logo

narcolepsy 6y ago

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).

dmos62 6y ago
> 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.
w0utert 6y ago
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 ;-)

himinlomax 6y ago

Tried a couple times, seemed to work just fine, but I don't have much of a use for it.

throwaway77384 6y ago

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. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6749#issuecomment-611207469 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6749...

captn3m0 6y ago

OBS works. Steam also has broadcasting, but it is currently broken in the stable linux release: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5275 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5275