K3CAN

I wanted share a quick update on my gaming setup:

I used to have a desktop PC running Fedora Wrokstation which acted as my "Gaming PC," primarily for Cities Skylines II and Palworld.
Within the past month, I've repurposing that computer into a combination NAS/media server/gaming machine. I'll cover the rest of the change in another post, but here I wanted to focus on the gaming aspect real quick.

I installed Debian for an OS, and then installed Steam onto the main SSD. I mounted the same nvme drive which I had used to store my game library previously, and was happy to see that it all worked once I pointed Steam to it's location. I also installed Protontricks, so that I could continue to use Skyve to keep CSII up-to-date (see my previous post on Skyve here). I also created an alias so that I could launch Skyve easily by adding

alias skyve="protontricks --no-bwrap -c 'wine /mnt/nvme/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/949230/pfx/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Skyve\ CS-II/Skyve.exe' 949230"` 

to my bashrc profile.

Next, since this PC is intended to act as a server, I set up Sunshine so that I could steam my games to any device. Now I can launch Moonlight from my laptop (or even my cellphone!) and play anything in my Steam library with the full power of my server and GPU!

Skyve running on Debian, as seen from my laptop via Moonlight:



The server is also running Jellyfin, several Samba shares, and a handful of other goodies... But more on that all later!