Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support

After announcing Amazon Luna back in 2020 as their cloud gaming service, today Amazon officially rolled it out to all US users. With this launch also comes a limited, rotating selection of games free to Amazon Prime members...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Amazon-Luna-US-Launch

[brucethemoose]

I wonder if Luna actually needs OS specific components (...Widevine? Some kind of controller or decoding API?), or if spoofing your user agent/OS would be enough to placate it.


Anyway, I know there isn't much love for game streaming on tech forums, but I think its a neat way to demo games.

[unic0rn]

demo? i have over 145h and counting in cyberpunk 2077 alone on stadia, not counting quite a few other games i either don't have time to finish (countless rpgs and not only - and i'm talking only about AAA titles) or i haven't even started playing yet.

works like a charm. started on linux, now using macos. works under chrome/chromium, you can use either keyboard + mouse or gamepad. i even bought gamesir x2 to use it with my phone, since sometimes it's better to get a break from big screen when you're sitting in front of it whole day.

[mirmirmir]

While fedora is the best foss distro out there, their firefox build are stripped, cannot play drm media, i have to use official chrome for it.

[egee]

I actually have Luna and it's pretty good. I run it via a Fire Cube & the Luna Controller. Input lag isn't noticeable (not to me, at least). I beat Resident Evil 7 on Luna and I'm half way through Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

The Luna app + controller work great on Windows but I'd really like to have it running on Linux as the Luna Controller won't work naively via the web browser.

[nadro]

While fedora is the best foss distro out there, their firefox build are stripped, cannot play drm media, i have to use official chrome for it.

I use official Flatpak build from Flathub on Fedora like before on Ubuntu and I'm happy with it. I don't see a problems with DRM, VAAPI etc. (I use ffmpeg-full from Flatpak too, because without them I had problems to enable VAAPI).

[brucethemoose]

demo? i have over 145h and counting in cyberpunk 2077 alone on stadia, not counting quite a few other games i either don't have time to finish (countless rpgs and not only - and i'm talking only about AAA titles) or i haven't even started playing yet.

works like a charm. started on linux, now using macos. works under chrome/chromium, you can use either keyboard + mouse or gamepad. i even bought gamesir x2 to use it with my phone, since sometimes it's better to get a break from big screen when you're sitting in front of it whole day.

Yeah, I believe it, but (assuming you meet the internet requirements) its still very situational.

Some human brains (including mine, unfortunately) have a low tolerance for input lag or video compression artifacts, while others seem to smooth it over completely. Same goes for microstutter, certain in game effects like flashing/strobing, banding, aliasing, film grain and so on. I get how some people will be perfectly satisfied with streaming, but based on my short Stadia test, my brain is incompatible with it. Heck, I can't even stand uneven frame delivery in video. Hence I would rather play CP2077 on bare-minimum settings (at 60+ FPS) locally than play it maxed on a streaming service.


But I bet client-side processing can smooth that over someday. For instance, DLSS (or some analogue fit for mobile SoCs) trained on a specific service could absolutely smooth over compression artifacts and sharpen up blurry details, and a VR warping analogue could probably be implemented as well.

[sarmad]

So, is Chrome now the new IE? How come so many sites work only on Chrome, is it some sort of proprietary APIs that are only supported in Chrome?

[geearf]

So, is Chrome now the new IE? How come so many sites work only on Chrome, is it some sort of proprietary APIs that are only supported in Chrome?

That's a good question!
Maybe in the future it'd be good to try with ungoogled-chromium instead.

[brucethemoose]

So, is Chrome now the new IE? How come so many sites work only on Chrome, is it some sort of proprietary APIs that are only supported in Chrome?

Its partially this: DRM support: Platform comparison - castLabs

Widevine itself is also complicated.

Fedora stripping some stuff out of Firefox may also contribute to Michael's issue.