As of April 2026, spacedesk does not have an official native Linux host/driver
How it works: It uses WebRTC to stream your desktop to a browser.
Deskreen: A popular open-source tool that turns any device with a web browser into a second monitor for your Linux desktop via Wi-Fi. spacedesk para linux new
Apollo + Moonlight: A newer 2025-2026 workflow where users set up a virtual display on their host and stream it to a secondary device using the Moonlight client for ultra-low latency. Important 2026 Licensing Update
Over the next week, Ricardo became an accidental beta tester. He posted on the forum (the same one with the broken Portuguese). He discovered that if you disabled Wayland and booted into Xorg, the lag dropped from 30ms to 12ms. He found that the audio worked perfectly if you used pulseaudio instead of pipewire. He wrote a small bash script to restart the service after a disconnection. As of April 2026, spacedesk does not have
Launch your Streamer: Use Deskreen or a VNC server to "capture" that specific virtual monitor.
Enable any Linux machine (desktop, laptop, SBC like Raspberry Pi, or even a VM) to act either as: High-quality video: Deskreen : A popular open-source tool
Driver (Server): There is no native Linux server software. The primary machine must still be a Windows PC [19].