Fabiniku is more along these lines. With the additional twist of the protag’s boon being his best friend getting dragged in with him to help him out, so there’s some exploration of why one or both would want to go back home.

…and genderbending.

I see exactly one(1) comment that suggests trying a different distro.

One comment is suggesting using a game streaming application (Moonlight).

One comment is suggesting using the RDP server that comes with Fedora (which jaschen306 stated they are using).

One comment is yours.

One comment is saying it’s probably a hardware issue.

And finally, one comment is suggesting a gaming-focused Linux distro - but specifically calling out that it’s if they’re looking for a gaming distro.

Admittedly I have Hexbear and Lemmygrad blocked, so I might be missing other comments.