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.
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
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.
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)