LG over local cabled network?

compose · April 20, 2021, 1:28pm

My current desktop compute (both CPU and RAM) isn’t enough (mainly insane use of firefox and thunderbird).

Without going overkill, a desktop would be 600€, a laptop 2-3(+)x of that. I don’t have much to spend.

Since my needs for a laptop are mainly within in-house, I’m wondering, whether thin-client/streaming the desktop would be reasonable. I can deal with being tethered.

While looking for software to accomplish this, I’m wondering whether LG could be done over the network (Liqid-like?), and whether this is even somewhat reasonable.

I’m already predicting a no, but thought I’d ask anyway.

Altkey · April 20, 2021, 3:13pm

What makes Looking Glass fast is the fact there’s a shared memory framebuffer. It’s not designed to run over a network as far as I’m aware.

TheCakeIsNaOH · April 20, 2021, 3:28pm

This has been discussed before, here:

Looking Glass over Cat6 Cable? Looking Glass

Hello, Send the raw data (framebuffer?) from Looking Glass through a CAT6 cable. Impossible? Blame Linus for making me want to try the one server rules them all project. That’s what sparked the idea of using Looking Glass for that. 1080p60 should be good on 10gbit, for higher resolutions 20gbit should do, now, would the latency be reasonable through ethernet? It would be amazing if you could achieve low latency through a standard ethernet switch; I would imagine a port to port configuration to have low enough latency for it to be unnoticeable. Considering current solutions for this niech use case are proprietary ASICS and protocols, that cost from a couple of hundred bucks like HDBaseT, to literally thousands of dollars with something like a fiber cable or extender. Thoughts?