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Re:Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud by yoz-y on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:51AM (#28442135)
This is a very novel use case to me. Could you elaborate why use this solution instead of a local VM, boot camp, or something like Stadia?

Seems that it would work quite well for turn based games (including auto save)

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Re:Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud by cprecioso on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:58AM (#28442179)
I don't use a local VM or bootcamp because I just don't have a powerful enough computer to run AAA games from the last 5 years or so - even earlier if the game is badly optimized. Now with an M1 they're not even compatible.

Stadia, GeForce NOW, Xbox Game Streaming and PlayStation Now: I've tried them all, and GeForce NOW specifically is very good. But, they only allow me to play a subset of my large pre-existing game library, and/or make me buy games again, which I'm not interested in.

Stadia is specially bad at this, having to purchase on a game-by-game basis, not being compatible with any existing ecosystem (Steam, PS, Xbox have cloud saves and friend lists), and then trusting Google to run my game forever on their servers after paying a one-time cost.

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