I'm talking about this

Did anyone try this out? I just wanted to get an opinion before trying it out.

Bump!

I already can set up such a system on my Linux box thanks to xpra, at no additional cost (my server is already running 24/24h).

So I’ve no real interest in renting some Amazon space, buying a Windows licence and go through what looks like a quite complex process for a result that would be at best the same that what I already get.

It might be interesting for some people, but I’m clearly not part of the target demographics ;)

I don't think you would have to buy a windows license separately, that's the impression I got from that guide, Isn't that the case?

Edit: Plus you seem to have misunderstood the point of doing that, by doing that you can game from a low end laptop as well without having to assemble a high end gaming PC for yourself and according to some cost analysis I have seen apparently 1850 hours of gaming like this equals 1000$ which seems to be the price of a good gaming desktop.

Oh, I did not hear of that before. Maybe I'll have a look at it. Thanks for bringing it up.
I already did some experimenting using GamingAnywhere.

Using the EC2 cluster also seems an interesting approach to me.
In the end I guess it will heavily depend on how much time/money you want to invest.
Although that guide does not mention Windows licensing I doubt you can run a MS Server instance for free on EC2.
Also, if you run into trouble running games that way you are pretty much on your own...

sounds worse than steam but not much better than most MMOs, in terms of concept.

xpra is actually not limited to games, it allows to run any graphical application on a server and send its display to another machine.
It’s quite easy to set up, but if you encounter any difficulties in your tests feel free to contact me via GOG chat and I’ll try to help you using it ;)

I didn't understand that comparison you made, Steam only gives you cloud storage and I can't really see how MMO's are related to cloud at all.

Finally what I said involves you renting cloud computing resources, both storage and processing, so in simple terms your game is running on that server and you can stream it to your system which would normally be not able to play that game due to it being below minimum specifications. That guy in that article used a fanless macbook to play Witcher 3 through this method.

distributed processing is as old as client/server technology.