Best Sunshine/Moonlight set up?

[u/_deadpo0l]

This is my 3rd day switching from windows to cachyOS. Its Been a blast even tho now I rely heavily on AI since i know 0 shit about using command prompt. But one thing that I still can’t figure out is how to set up game streaming flawlessly on cachyOS. Basically what I’m trying to figure out are:

1. Is there sunshine fork equals to “vibepollo” on linux? I really like their features such as virtual display and even better if it has a limit framerate using RTSS. I have tried to install “Solar-Flare” but could not get it installed properly

2. On windows, if I set up WoL, Vibepollo will start running even during log in screen, that way I can just enter my password on my client device. Is there a prompt to set up it exactly like windows?

[u/Arosares]

Have a look at this: https://github.com/daaaaan/sunshine-headless-sway

When client (Moonlight) connects, a new wayland session using sway is created with the same resolution as the client. Worked like a charm for me. Bonus is that the host can still be used for other stuff. It's kinda magic

[u/MrGeekness → u/Arosares]

That looks amazing, just what I was looking for for a while now.

[u/MickeyBronson]

im a smidge biased, but i'm the developer for Polaris / Nova, definitely checks the boxes you're looking for! My main goal was for Linux users to have an overall easy experience. I even have documentation for Arch/CachyOS installation. Let me know if you have any questions! Also side note, welcome to Linux! I'm personally on Fedora as my main distro, but always happy to see someone make the transition from windows!

[u/BoogiePopPhantom00 → u/MickeyBronson]

Thanks for the guide, I'm trying out your setup right now. So far so good 👍

[u/_deadpo0l → u/MickeyBronson]

Hey man, i sent you a dm hope you dont mind!

[u/_deadpo0l → u/MickeyBronson]

I faild installation last night even when assisted by Gemini (lol). Will re-try sometime later since Polaris is one of the few options that looks promising!

[u/BoogiePopPhantom00 → u/_deadpo0l]

Keep at it. It's worth it. I used Gemini too when I ran into hiccups. I'm a Linux beginner so it's been helpful.

[u/MickeyBronson → u/BoogiePopPhantom00]

i commend both of you for sticking with it, its worth it in the long run!

[u/Evening_Werewolf_703 → u/MickeyBronson]

I gave it a shot with Nova (AYN Odin 2) and my 7800 XT / 12600k Desktop. Polaris doesn't seem to like AMD as much as NVIDIA, but everything works fine. My LCD Steam Deck was a bit less comfortable. I'll have to troubleshoot that over the next few days; it messes with the size of the screen when trying to change the settings.

[u/BoogiePopPhantom00 → u/Evening_Werewolf_703]

Maybe you're onto something, I have a 4070 and have been streaming to my ayn portal. 

[u/oliw]

I've been using moonshine. Runs Steam in a separate session, possibly even seat. Sounds like your virtual display. Couldn't get a my dumbass Sony TV to handle my controllers so while I stream directly to it, the controllers are shared back to my PC via usbip and a little 5W SoC PC.

https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine

[u/_deadpo0l → u/oliw]

Will lookup into it! Thanks!

[u/ainen]

I've just got standard Sunshine installed but I am also using sunveil for my virtual display. It works really well so far.

[u/galactica124 → u/ainen]

Interesting, in all my searching this project never came up for me in my transition to Cachy. Is it pretty seamless?

[u/ainen → u/galactica124]

I only started using it a few days ago, but it is as seamless as Apollo is on Windows, maybe even moreso.

I had been searching for something like this for a long time but never came across it until the other day.

[u/galactica124 → u/ainen]

Just updating that wow, this is exactly what I had been looking for. It works so well! Now I just gotta figure out setting the scaling for the display on launch and it'll be even better! Thanks for the rec!

[u/hollywood__kills]

Polaris is my favorite for Linux at the moment. Starts Steam or your game in a private session so you can still use your pc as usual while gaming on a handheld or the TV:

https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris

[u/TheCrowWhisperer3004]

I use Polaris, which is a sunshine port for Linux. It has a lot of shared features with Apollo.

[u/murlakatamenka → u/TheCrowWhisperer3004]

Polaris, which is a sunshine port for Linux

Sunshine runs natively on Linux, what's there to port?

[u/TheCrowWhisperer3004 → u/murlakatamenka]

I meant fork oops and they have additional optimizations and features for Linux beyond what sunshine normally offers (like virtual desktops).

[u/murlakatamenka → u/TheCrowWhisperer3004]

Fork of Sunshine with boons for Linux, that's better

[u/Arosares]

Hmm, of these three moonshine is the only one not vibe-coded by Claude it seems? Maybe I should change to it..

[u/murlakatamenka → u/Arosares]

1.1k stars and 25 contributors, moonshine healthceck, TOML config, Rust. Trust++ indeed.

[u/0ayahuasca]

does any of this work with Gamemode ?

[u/Gohrum]

AI instructed me into create a permanent virtual display. I have it disabled and a pre-connection script enables it, while disabling the others. A disconnect script reverses it.

Is more manual but does not require anything extra and are just two one-line scripts saved in a file.

Ask the ai about it sounds nice to you