Everything I see on this topic involves gaming. The last game I played in a long while was Cities Skylines on my laptop (which was taxing, but ran it fine). I used to use Macs, but for a long time, until up to 2013, I decided that since I look at mostly text editors, terminals and a web browser and some other common things, I'd rather spend less for equipment and get used to some desktop UI on a Linux. I have had reliable ThinkPads (procured used) for years as a result. While there were bumps, it's been fine. Since I am in the vicinity of financial applications, I have to use Windows about 30% of the time, and I hate it every time. Can someone be the Steam for Excel, please? :)
dale_glass|1 month ago
Whatever's possible, local on Linux. If it's not, one of my servers has a GPU that I pass through to a Windows VM, and run the games there and displayed by streaming. Also works for VR.
Not a setup for everyone and a tad technically complex to set up, but it works well enough for my needs.
It does run into some trouble with games that don't like virtual machines, but since I'm a very casual gamer I just play things that don't complain about that.
> Can someone be the Steam for Excel, please? :)
You can actually add anything you want to Steam, so you can use Steam Link to run Excel remotely.