I’m playing Diablo II on PS4. I really didn’t expect that to happen. But what I did expect to happen was for it to entertain for hours on end, and it has. It is beautifully remastered and had the UI added to console. The controls are surprisingly good without a…

I don’t like to get political on this blog, but this particular question has popped up a lot lately, and I’d like to address it from the point of view of a patient. …

Ubuntu 20.04 has given me some issues on Azure. Previously, I’d installed 18.04 and upgraded to 20.04 with do-release-upgrade. This mostly seemed to work though it is obviously the long way round. A couple weeks ago the 20.04 image made its way to the top of the Marketplace for Compute…

WSL2 is almost maddening in how close it is to being a complete Linux environment. Really, the major missing piece is full systemd support and WSL2 would be seamlessly integrated into a Windows desktop. A discussion on SnapCraft forums turned into a script that adds systemd support to WSL2. Unlike…

I’m living the dream. My company is running Windows servers and our latest direction is that we want to replace our .NET applications on Windows server with .NET Core applications in Linux containers. This is well-known to be a solid platform for many reasons: Linux. Say what you will about…

Just to round out this series, I recently discovered that the AWS g4dn can run Linux AMIs. And that the NVIDIA Tesla T4 is a supported card with the NVIDIA driver. So, we have the basis for running Steam on Linux, and streaming our games from a Linux host. The…

As an architect, I’ve made it a principle to avoid becoming dependent on specific vendors. That itself seems prudent, but is it really possible? Anyone who’s been in the industry knows of at least one vendor relationship that feels a bit one-sided. But getting rid of them isn’t that easy…

In a previous article, I discussed building a cloud gaming PC in Azure. If you were successful in building it, you probably deleted fairly soon afterward because it didn’t work very well. Being the stubborn type, I refused to give up when I was so close. After some research into…

Adventures with Azure and Steam — Having found myself without my main PC for a weekend, I wondered if it would be possible to create something similar to GeForce Now, but with a better selection. Surprisingly, it is (almost) possible to do this using Azure (or AWS) and Steam. Maybe you will have better luck than…