The thing is like this: I have a windows laptop I use for work, and a Linux desktop machine. I have a single screen keyboard etc. and I switch between the two using a docking station. But, I wonder if there is a way for me to “cut the middle man” and just plug/unplug my linux machine.

I guess I can use a remote desktop solution approach on my laptop, but I wonder if there is a more “extreme” solution. Mostly since I have only one Ethernet port in my home office.

  • a new sad me@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    I have a docking station, or better said KVM, connected to the monitor, keyboard etc. Currently, I’m switching the KVM between the laptop and the desktop machine using a USB C. I wonder if there is a way for me to turn my desktop into a KVM.

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      5 months ago

      Typicaly the way a KVM worls is you connect both computers to it, then a single monitor, keyboard and mouse.

      Flipping the switch on the KVM moves the keyboard and mouse input, and video output, from machine #1 to Machine #2.