By @androidcentral
Publication Date: 2026-01-16 08:10:00
Hardwired
In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, audio products, storage servers, and networking gear.
I don’t really need cloud gaming; I have a gaming rig powered by an RTX 4090, and my wife has her own gaming machine with an RTX 5080. But with a toddler in the house, it’s just not feasible to get any gaming time, and while my wife manages to play Valorant for a few hours a week, the only game I played to any meaningful extent in the last year is Balatro.
This is where a service like GeForce Now comes in handy. At the outset, cloud gaming is all about convenience; you don’t have to worry about hardware or configuration, and you can just focus on the game itself. While Microsoft has its own take on cloud gaming with Xbox Game Pass, I like what NVIDIA is doing with GeForce Now a lot better — the service lets me play my own games on the cloud, and that’s just great.
NVIDIA is on a mission to bring GeForce Now to as many platforms as possible. It’s now available natively on select Amazon streaming products alongside Samsung and LG smart TVs. What I particularly like is that there’s a native Linux app, and the timing couldn’t have been better; I’m getting increasingly frustrated with Windows (I just can’t stand Windows 11) and have been mulling a wholesale switch to Ubuntu.
Linux gaming in general is much better than it was even a few years ago,…