{"id":1057,"date":"2015-05-14T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinglauser.ch\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2015-05-14T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:12:27","slug":"some-thoughts-about-removing-windows-from-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinglauser.ch\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/some-thoughts-about-removing-windows-from-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts about removing Windows from your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for ways to remove Windows from my daily life. Sadly I&#8217;m still using it on my main desktop, because I use the Adobe Creative Suite and still play games on Windows.<\/p>\n<p>However I had a few ideas how to replace or at least minimize my Windows usage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Streaming<\/a> (Stream games over the network to my laptop. For this I still need a Windows Desktop at Home, but at least I can now play almost all Windows games on my Laptop at home)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/screenhero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Screenhero<\/a>\u00a0(Stream individual Windows over the network and also use them with multiple users. This application is currently undergoing some internal development and you can&#8217;t sign up for new accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.screenhero.com\/update\/screenhero\/Screenhero.dmg\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Download<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.screenhero.com\/update\/win\/Screenhero-Latest-setup.exe\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Download<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citrix_Systems\" target=\"_blank\">Citrix<\/a>\u00a0(This would stream a whole desktop to a client. However this is more used in business environments and not optimized for home-users or gaming)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon EC<\/a>\u00a0(We can use this to run our\u00a0own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2. How it&#8217;s done is described <a href=\"http:\/\/lg.io\/2015\/04\/12\/run-your-own-high-end-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Sadly for me the ping for the nearest GPU instances is over 20ms so this isn&#8217;t anything for me yet.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xen.org\/wiki\/Xen_PCI_Passthrough\" target=\"_blank\">Xen PCI Passthrough<\/a>\u00a0(Use a virtual Windows Maschine on Linux and passthrough a GPU via PCI Passthrough so we can play games on the virtual machine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be nice, if there was a easy way to\u00a0stream multiple individual applications from a Windows machine to a Mac or Linux machine.<\/p>\n<p>Any other ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;ve been looking for ways to remove Windows from my daily life. Sadly I&#8217;m still using it on my main desktop, because I use the Adobe Creative Suite and still play games on Windows. 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