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Suggest a Laptop for me. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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Hello Lemmings,

My 5 year old gaming laptop finally needs to be replaced. I need a new laptop for programming and light gaming. I no longer game on a laptop but a desktop. Though being able to play even outside would be nice so the laptop should be able to play at least Team Fortress 2. I'll be installing a Linux distro on it. My budget is around 800-1000€. The screen should be 14 or 15 inches. The battery should last at least 6 hours while not doing anything heavy as video editing or gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If youre up for it, you could stream off of your home desktop with Sunshine and use the laptop just as a light-weight client. Then the requirements for the laptop are a lot less and could potentially play even better games.

I played dota on my old laptop at a friends house while it actually streamed from my home desktop and it worked fine. I dont remember if you need a domain or static IP or anything like that, which may be a barrier. Or if upload speeds just wont allow it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just use Tailscale or something to try it out!

Sunshine on the desktop, moonlight on the client side. You can even stream games to your phone or a tablet of you're feeling frisky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He could even keep his current laptop with this arrangement. Less e-waste. (unless it's already dead, but for programming I still use a 12 year old vaio that got a second life when ditching windows)