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When you say stream you mean remote desktop, right?
The functionally, not the tech, yes. Sunshine and moonlight is a more performant alternative to native remote desktop (rdp).
Yes I meant functionally ie I meant remote desktop generically rather than RDP. Can I think of sunshine & moonlight as just another alternative to VNC (except better performer?).
I would say so, yes.
(I'm not the original commented, but I do use them too.)
They came to be after Nvidia published their gaming streaming as an open source alternative. Nvidia dropped their product. Sunshine and moonlight still actively develop.
Personally, I use them to stream my desktop to TV, for desktop, watching stuff, and sometimes gaming.
Thanks to both of you. Never heard of it before. Might come in handy when I make music. Have a fanless (ie silent) laptop under which I place picnic ice bricks. Controlling my desktop (sunshine) with the laptop (moonlight) might be better.
Infinitely better, as long as your network and encoding are set up properly. At the very least, you won't need the ice bricks.