@Alfred I have a mini-pc, and I have a laptop. I wish to use the laptop in place of a monitor, mouse and keyboard. This setup is for playing moderately high frame rate video games, so I am concerned that any solution using the LAN would overwhelm the LAN. I am wondering, can this be done over a direct connection? I am thinking primarily of USB3 or Ethernet direct connections between the two machines.
@00pi I'd do it with a direct 10GbE Ethernet connection between the two, and then use X11 forwarding (yaaaaay, Xorg!) to share the display.
Then again, that particular method isn't applicable to Windows - fine for me, since I don't use Windows, but YMMV.
@IrelandTorin Yeah, I wish. Windows is the best value for quality indie gaming these days, at least to my tastes. When Win 10 goes out of support, I plan on switching the laptop to one *nix or another, but that's far enough off, and my faith in the laptop lasting that long is... neutral. The Mini stays on Windows unless and until I want to invest in storage for it to be capacious enough to dual boot. Since this setup is for travel, I am trying to minimize complexity if I can. I may lose parts.
@00pi ... have you given it a go recently?
Literally every game I own runs on Linux (via Wine/Proton) these days - I don't even have to check whether I can get a game to run before I buy it, because I always can... and generally speaking the most I'll have to do is select a particular Wine/Proton version. Very rarely I'll run across something particularly persnickety which requires some help from winetricks/protontricks - but that's really very rare.
Haven't run into *any* counterexamples yet.
@IrelandTorin I wonder if Steam has a quick way to check a large game library en masse. It's my new tangent.
@00pi @IrelandTorin steam will just run any/every game with their graphics support.
@b4cks4w Thank you! I guess I'll borrow a USB stick from my dad for fiddling purposes. @IrelandTorin