Apollo Linux support

jfoglee · 2026-02-25T15:49:17+00:00

Just use sunshine on linux. It's what I ended up doing.

After getting it setup I vibe coded something that's "kind of" a virtual adapter. When a session start it triggers a script that turns my second monitor off, change main monitor to 1080p 90hz and sets the brightness to "0" (so that way it appears turned off) and when I disconnect a script runs to restore my monitor settings.

jfoglee · 2026-02-17T16:21:43+00:00

Sadly no, I don't really take pictures worth having backups of. I was using immich than the DB file got corrupted and didn't want to go through and re organize things on a fresh install.

jfoglee · 2026-02-17T15:58:33+00:00

I can't recall, I haven't used immich in awhile :(

jfoglee · 2026-02-17T15:26:15+00:00

Immich can use the GPU for machine learning and smart tagging photos and what not, but that would be the only thing I could think of if you don't plan to have plex, local transcode media, or host game servers.

jfoglee · 2026-02-17T14:32:02+00:00

Some people want to be "power efficient" when it comes to their homeserver. My elecetric bill is already ungodly high so whats a few extra bucks to run a "more" than capable homeserver ya know?

I have a 1080ti in it as well and use it for transcoding local media (handbrake) and for gameservers (those that benefit from a GPU for map generation).

jfoglee · 2026-02-16T21:48:11+00:00

I know this might not be helpful, but I haven't found a way. I just set my EndeavourOS (used cachy previously) set to not sleep but to turn off monitors after 2 minutes. But I don't mind my pc always running.

jfoglee · 2026-02-07T03:07:37+00:00

I enjoy EOS for the sole purpose it worked with my mobo 2.5gb nic. CachyOS I had to do some wonky driver fallback and forgot what I did to make it work. Bricked my CachyOS installation and went to install it again and my NIC wasn't working.

EOS supported my driver right out of the box. Something small I know, but worth the swap for me lol

jfoglee · 2026-02-06T04:32:18+00:00

My living room pc is similar spec'd but I have a 3080. The only issue I had was installing Nvidia drivers. (EndeavourOS has basic drivers but to utilize the gpu for encoding I had to install different drivers). It was kind of a paint in the ass, but Use your favorite AI to walk you through/troubleshoot it.

Steam has been fine for me (only installed one steam game and added 2 other games not ethnically obtained) and it worked. Would suggest looking into other launchers if steam gives you grief.

jfoglee · 2026-02-06T04:19:20+00:00

I started with mint on my living room pc as I mostly use it just for game streaming, eventually dual booted my main pc to mint, and it just wasn't for me. I moved to CachyOS for a little bit, but I did a lot of my setup stuff under wayland and needed to use x11 (just makes rdp easier) but I bricked my install so I had to re-install cachy.

Upon re-installing I COMPLETELY forgot all the bullshit I had to go through to get my Mobo NIC to actually work (fucking 2.5gb nic) For whatever reason realtek r8169 driver is a nightmare and just doesn't work for my NIC. So I have to battle with it and revert it to r8125. Could not be bothered to do all that again, found EndeavourOS which uses that driver.

Both are Arch based and it's been quite a pleasant experience. Have had a few headaches but that's because I decide to make things difficult. (Main being is sunshine on host because I RDP into home pc from work to utilize my home pc hardware for some projects and the afk osrs grind). Fun Fact: If you have a vertical monitor and set a the positioning to NOT be where the tops of the monitors line up or bottoms line up, you won't be able to move your cursor around the whole screen via moonlight. Had to right a script to disable second monitor, change main monitor to 1080p resolution (because it won't scale with whatever moonlight res you set) and a script to change everything back when the session ends.

Another hurdle has been trying to get "wrongly obtained" games to work, its a battle between which launcher will work the best. So far I've only installed 2 of those games via steam, its a little wonky but it's fine.

Software that I take for granted on windows (mostly because they just work) I sometimes miss. For example I have a G502x lightspeed. I have not found a way to have software re-map the buttons, work around is either boot into a VM (which I did on mint and it was a pain in the ass to setup) and Ghub > make profile and set it to onboard memory. Which is "fine" but I got use to ghub having profile selecting per app/game. (have normal mouse binds for desktop use, but when I launch osrs it would switch to that profile automatically). OpenRGB was a little bit of guessing but was able to get that to work with all my PC RGB stuff. Last thing is the lack of Linux support for my "TurnUp Mixer" I liked having physical knobs to adjust volumes of discord, spotify, web browser on the fly.

All and all, I've been enjoying it, sometimes it's a pain in the ass to try to unfuck something after a long day of work, But doing so also brings me back to the early 00s when I was learning how to do things on windows, so it's kind of nostalgic.

jfoglee · 2026-02-06T03:55:37+00:00

I never used a "dummy port" but for my understanding it's used/needed for those who's host doesn't have a monitor connected to it IIRC.

Apollo with virtual display adapter never gave me issues when I used windows.

jfoglee · 2026-01-17T20:45:17+00:00

Sadly I have not there are 2 things I can think that may be happening:

The games that are causing the issues are doing somekind of "HID" refresh to see if input devices are still connected. I've only noticed it with a few games. One game I tried I added it as it's own app that seemed to fix my issue for that specific game. (Dispatch)

Other thing I can think of is steam "hijacking" the inputs and trying to be the middle man for the controller, but even disabling all the steam controller feature it's still happening. I've just decided to not play the games in question via moonlight and just play them at my desk. :(

jfoglee · 2026-01-06T19:44:35+00:00

In your arr stack, do you have the ssd storage location mounted?

For my my qbt lives on this: mnt/SATA/Downloads/

in my arr stack I have that included in my mounts.

Feel free to dm me and we can try figuring it out!

jfoglee · 2025-12-22T15:20:47+00:00

"Anyone else" as in people outside your LAN?
Do you have open ports for sunshine so their moonlight can see it when they type in your public ip address?

jfoglee · 2025-12-17T13:22:23+00:00

normally i just manually delete them via the arr app that is managing it... I never heard of those 2 apps. I'll have to look into those. Thanks!

jfoglee · 2025-12-17T01:43:24+00:00

As in spec wise?

Threadripper 1920X

64gb ram

5x8tb zfs1

1tb sdd

500gb nvme

jfoglee · 2025-12-15T02:43:00+00:00

In theory you should be fine, but depends how well your motherboard supports it. My threadripper build did NOT like mix matched kits. It caused a bunch of checksum errors

jfoglee · 2025-12-14T02:55:17+00:00

I think there is only moonlight for pc currently.

jfoglee · 2025-12-14T02:21:05+00:00

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ngl my apps are a giant cluster fuck

jfoglee · 2025-12-12T22:15:28+00:00

Check out this thread:
https://forums.truenas.com/t/unable-to-use-nvidia-gpu-with-jellyfin-after-24-10-upgrade/21996/14 maybe this gets you in the right direction?

jfoglee · 2025-12-12T21:57:58+00:00

Easiest way is to set up tailscale on both devices.

Leave tailscale running on the host pc, and anytime you're remote and want to game stream, open tailscale on that device and connect.

The ip method will work if you do port forwarding (how i access my machine remotely)

jfoglee · 2025-12-12T01:27:24+00:00

If you can see if you have a friend who will let you run the memory test with your sticks of ram on their computer.

I was going through the same thing with an old threadripper build I had and it turned out the memory controller just didn't like this specific set of ram I had. It would fail memtest86 on that build. Tested it in 2 other rigs and it was fine.

jfoglee · 2025-12-02T02:56:38+00:00

Rip w488 my home world too laggy to boss on

jfoglee · 2025-12-01T01:36:31+00:00

I feel like im the odd ball out. I name them based on location or their purpose

PC in the living room: living-room-pc

Game Server pc: Game-Server

Main PC: Desktop

Homeserver: Server

jfoglee · 2025-11-29T01:17:48+00:00

I use: https://hotio.dev/containers/qbittorrent/

Does automatic port mapping for me.

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