[user_7832]

Slightly tangential, do you think Moonlight (with say Sunshine) is good enough for proper work? I've used a few "second screens" apps like spacedesk on my iPad but generally when the resolution is good enough for text, it's too laggy for scrolling (and vice-versa).

(For more details, I'm planning to stream from an old laptop after turning it into a hackintosh. I'm hoping staying on the home network's going to help with latency.)

[aappleby]

Absolutely yes, especially if you use a GPU with a recent video encoder.

I have all my PCs connected to each other via Moonlight+Sunshine and the latency on the local network is unnoticeable. I code on my Linux workstation from my laptop, play games on the gaming PC from my workstation, etcetera and it is all basically perfect.

[user_7832]

Thank you! When you say GPU with a recent video encoder, do you mean them separately (i.e. don't use software/cpu streaming; and use an efficient encoder), or do you mean use a GPU that supports recent encoders? I'm afraid my Intel HD 520 isn't particularly new and likely doesn't support modern encoders.

[aappleby]

A GPU with a dedicated encoder for x264 or preferably x265/AV1. You can do without it, but you'll spend a core or two on software encoding and the overhead will add a few tens of ms of lag.

With full hardware capture and encode (default on windows, can require tweaking on Linux ) it's virtually free resource-wise.

[ThatPlayer]

You're off by one letter: the codec is h264/h265. x264 and x265 are the CPU encoding softwares for the codec.

[tymscar]

Without a doubt! I use moonlight for ten+ hours a week. I never use it for gaming and it never failed once.

[user_7832]

Thanks, that's great to hear/know! Would you be okay sharing your hardware (CPU/GPU) setup on the server (Sunshine) side? Thanks!

[tymscar]

Yes. I host both on my NixOS desktop that has a 13900KF and an RTX4080 (using nvenc and AV1), as well as from my MacBook Pro M3 Pro.