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Steam allows you to stream games from other network PCs. I found it interesting that you could stream games and sometimes glitch out of the game but still keep full control of the desktop. Odd, because steam makes a wonderful RDP-like client. Concerning, because i never entered my password for that computer.

I turned off remote streaming after that happened. Author of this paper is right for disclosing

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You do have to log into Steam with the same account on both PCs, don't you?

Personally I find it annoying that it doesn't have a fallback whole-desktop mode, since some game launchers (eg Minecraft) interact very badly with Steam streaming, and Microsoft insist on turning RDP off on consumer editions. You can fake it by installing Notepad as a "third party game", but it's not entirely reliable.

I ended up using Nvidia+Moonlight to stream Minecraft.

The behavior seems to vary between the PC Steam program and the Steam Link app on other devices. The Steam Link app will fallback to whole-desktop, allowing you to exit Steam Big Picture and what not.

You can even start streaming the desktop directly. AFAIK there is a setting for that.

If you are interested in software that has the same functionality but is much more reliable, I would highly recommend Parsec. It's free.

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