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Arch-based I find is a good middle-ground. I use CachyOS and it’s more or less preconfigured, there’s a selection of packages preinstalled, but it’s still pretty baseline so you can build it up to whatever you want. There’s probably enough to get you going out-of-the-box if you’re new.

But yeah if you’re brand new to Linux there’s distros designed for that audience and you can always hop away to something when you’re ready or if your use-case changes.

I did exactly this but unfortunately it didn’t address the issue I was experiencing. I read the manual you linked and the support forum for Sunshine.

I posted about it in support forums and also got helpful advice about network latency, matching res and refresh rates to host, running Wayland only session, running game scope, using Apollo, etc.It unfortunately didn’t help.

I tried it on Bazzite (where it is preconfigured) and CachyOS and got the same result on both.

It suspect it’s the encoder but I think it could be a Wayland issue. I didn’t test X11 as that didn’t really suit my purposes.

I explored this issue pretty thoroughly and spent hours trying to solve it :(

I don’t know if it’s the encoder or Wayland being Wayland, but there stutters on the stream (but not the host screen) using VA-API.

Using the same host/receiver on windows (but a different encoder) there’s no issue so not sure it’s related to VRR or framerate matching as many suggest.

No output errors at all. It actually runs at high frame rates and high resolution. No matter what res or frame cap or bandwidth limit it will microstutter in predictable ways :(

I’ve tried Sunshine and Moonlight, on both Bazzite (pre-installed and configured) and CachyOS (pacman and AUR).

Yes I do have VA-API and no iGPU, so there wasn’t an easy fix.

I also see the same issue on Bazzite and CachyOS, and the same issue using Apollo and Sunshine. I’ve also deeply investigated network issues as the cause but I think that was a red herring.

Windows was fine out of the box and has specific AMD gpu codexes that the Linux build doesn’t have (I assume proprietary?) so that seems the most likely cause.

Dual booting Windows and it works fine there, and there’s definitely encoders not present in Linux that are in windows.

Open to suggestions, or are you just here to have strong opinions about things?

Sunshine worked brilliantly under Windows 11, but unfortunately on Linux it lacks the ability to encode the video stream using my RX 7800 XT and microstutters like crazy.