I have a "gaming laptop" that is in its own rights a powerful and capable machine. However I have found myself preferring to use geforce now for game streaming

I have a "gaming laptop" that is in its own rights a powerful and capable machine. However I have found myself preferring to use geforce now for game streaming from a Chromebook. It is much more convenient to pull out a small light and cheap Chromebook and start playing a new game immediately (no downloads) than to get out the heavy, bulky gaming laptop, wait for it to boot, plug it in, apply Windows updates etc, download and install new game/patches/steam updates/etc, hear the multiple fans whirring like crazy and feel the heat and so on and so on. I love the game streaming from a Chromebook because you are up and running in seconds. I started doing this after I had my first kid and realised that I had small windows of opportunity - perhaps 15-20 mins - to do something "for me" and I didn't want to waste that waiting for a patch to download it whatever. With Chromebook and streaming (I use stadia too, but less so as the catalogue is poor) I can go from a closed laptop to in-game in like 20-30 seconds. We already have the save games synced to Steam, so nothing is really changing in terms of data location (at least for geforce now - stadia is different as you cannot use steam, which was a product-killing mistake for stadia in my opinion) The only thing that I personally miss is that I am not able to poke around the game data files - many a happy hour lost decompiling Unity-based C# code or spelunking through data files with a hex editor (sometimes more fun than the game itself!)