Hello fellow lemmings!
I am in need of some advice on how to expand/coordinate my workstation.
I currently have 2 monitors and 2 laptops with 1 docking station that I switch back and forth between (I do have a second Bluetooth mouse that I connect to the laptop that is not currently connected to the docking station, if I need to).
I would like to have 4 monitors by the upcoming tax season. Also, I would like the option to expand to a total of 3 laptops within a couple years.
I have looked into KVM switches and the only one that I can find for 4 monitors and 2 computers is upwards of $800. Is there a KVM switch out there for 4 monitors and 3 computers, or is this just a pipedream?
What other solutions should I consider?
When I expand to 3 computers in the upcoming years, would having 2 workstations be cheaper/more efficient?
I wish I had a solid answer for that, I actually made a post about this recently.
Deskflow (synergy upstream) seems to be working well at the moment. Bear in mind they just moved all the repos, but Synergy v2 had a bunch of issues, it was dropped for v3, which is just deskflow packaged up all pretty. Input leap is from the people who were maintaining barrier and forked it a few years ago. Lan-mouse is its own thing, and it works, though its a bit clunky to use.
Right now I'm doing some testing to figure out what I want to use, my concern around barrier is that no updates makes for a security risk, and (for me) it also won't work with Wayland.
With Synergy going back to the open base, I don't really mind throwing them some cash, but its not available yet with Wayland support as a packaged project, so I built it and will be testing more for all of them once I move some things around on my desk to restructure - the whole reason I was looking for something in the first place actually. That won't happen until a free weekend though, so hopefully this weekend, but maybe the following.
You may be interested with input-leap now that they released binaries/packages for various distro
https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/releases/tag/v3.0.2
I installed it as a linux server and windows client, it works well, my old barrier config is 100% compatible
Awesome, thanks for letting me know!