Netris - an experimental open-source GeForce NOW alternative (cloud gaming solution)

[Experimental] Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features - netrisdotme/netris

What do you think of this project and cloud gaming in general? I thought it's dead already

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Not fully open source and trying to get paid subscriptions even before having a product doesn't sound too good to me..
- Well you do need paid subscriptions in such services. Nobody will buy hundreds of $2000 GPUs and give them for free use
  
  Even the Fediverse isn't free. Running functional public instances costs money, and thank goodness for everyone who contributes to theirs.
- Just curious, what parts aren't open source? At a glance it seems like they're working on supporting self hosting and I couldn't find any binaries.
Too bad it is nVidia only.
- Have you heard about moonlight and sunshine? You might be interested in that
Cloud gaming is definitely the future, I stuck a oldish amd video card in my server and use it for plex transcoding and steam headless so van play a decent amount games on my phone anywhere I have 5g, I hardly turn on my gaming desktop anymore and opted for a thin client laptop.
- self hosted cloud going you might be right. But I'm currently forced to use geforce now to play fortnite with my wife cause Epic hates Linux and goddamn is it a miserable experience.
  
  The 2-week fortnite phase every few months is currently the only reason I boot into Windows

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