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I thought I'd share something interesting sorta related to this, since it wasn't something I knew a whole heap about; I've been trying out local game streaming from my Bazzite PC to my ROG Ally X (still running Windows 11, totally backwards I know...). While this sounds kinda needless on the face of it, it actually is a great way to play a console type game (something better with a controller) with all settings maxed but in a truly portable form factor for a more flexible/relaxed way than being tethered to a desk/TV etc.
While there are some interesting apps out there I'm keen to give a go at some point in the future (namely Apollo/Artemis), without even trying I stumbled upon the native Steam Remote Play feature... I randomly opened Steam on my Ally with my main PC idling and I could see all of the games installed on my PC appearing locally on the ROG as playable, except the usual Play button was replaced with Stream. I actually don't remember if I had to enable it (there is a setting for Enable Remote Play in Steam > Settings), but for zero effort, I thought I'd give it a try.
So with my PC idling in another room, both devices connected to the same network (both by a WiFi 6 connection, neither having a particularly strong signal), I sat on my living room couch and fired up Death Stranding (since I'm currently working my way through my backlog). This started up the game on both machines as shown below, and all I had to do was enter a pin shown on my PC first, then I was in the game like it was installed locally.
Performance was excellent, and barring a few occasional frame drops from network lag, there was no perceptible latency issues (at least ones I could notice haha). And the neat part is because my Ally wasn't really doing anything other than playing a streaming video feed while sending input commands, playing a more demanding game like Death Stranding only dropped my battery ~10% for a whole hour of play.
You also get a neat little overlay for remote controlling the PC, which I haven't messed with, but found out about when, as per the on-screen prompt, I had accidently triggered it while trying one of Death Stranding's many little button-press-minigames...
The only real bugbear apart from the very occasional lag hits was a more general issue to Bazzite/Linux; when you are playing with a controller input, I had to disable Automatic Sleep otherwise it would literally go to sleep in the middle of a game! Apparently controllers aren't treated in the same way as mouse/keyboard, so you need to either move the mouse/keyboard occasionally, or do as I did.
TL;DR: for no real configuration effort, and what I consider to be very average network conditions, Remote Play worked great! I'm quite getting used to being able to play like this, even if it is more of a faff to have my PC running at the same time.
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