Thank you for your research but that’s just regular RDP, /u/drspod told me the thing I’m actually looking for and it’s called Synergy (deskflow is the FOSS component in apt). So, solved - until I can’t make it work ;)

Yes, that looks like it. Account? WTF?

edit: dingdingding! This is the thing. it’s called deskflow in apt

Thanks, drspod

gnome

Wait… so any RDP can just go across monitor boundaries like x2vnc used to? That would explain why development stopped. Do you know how I would make that happen? They used to have to make a 1px wide window at the edge of the screen that would magically transport the cursor to the other session. If you don’t immediately know, it’s cool I’ll look into it.

I want to sit at my windows machine with it’s three monitors and move my mouse to a fourth monitor of a Linux machine. x2vnc was great for controlling multiple *nix boxes and win2vnc did exactly what I want to do now but it hasn’t been updated for 5 years.

lol, you’re braver than me. No one ever sees the “code” I’ve written.

kmail is #2?

[X] doubt

I’ll tell you a secret: my cool looking 4u server case with 8 hot swappable drive bays actually just houses my last gaming rig. Know what’s going in there when I update my current rig?

This rig.

lol, this is probably why, 12.10 just dropped

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250315

gotta get through the upgrade somehow

If you have a problem and call the police, now you have two problems. That’s not just cliche, it’s true.

Don’t call the cops, call a lawyer.

Drag does.

You gave a command, I rejected it.

If the internet is gone I have no need for a Linux box.

E: and if it is really just me in my own LAN then I have the man pages

OK Boomer.

Counterpoint: everything one needs to learn Linux is online.

I have it on my SteamDeck right now. It’s my first immutable distro besides SteamOS so I’m not even sure which differences are “steam deck” and which are “bazzite”. One of these days I’ll try it on my gaming machine. I barely play MS Flight Sim anymore and don’t see myself buying 2024. X-Plane can probably scratch that itch now and I don’t play online with anti-cheat so I’ll be able to kill windows. Bazzite will probably be perfect for it because of that immutability. I spend way more time with my laptop, the gaming machine is expected to just work right when I turn it on.

This along with Bazzite do seem to make SteamOS redundant.

Edit: I read the front of the wiki, this isn’t much like SteamOS, this sounds like it will be good for KDE enthusiasts and OEMs. I’ll give it a try after it cooks more, looks like a great distro for a laptop

Huh, weird. Good luck

Sounds like the driver “broke”. I don’t use Arch, btw. When stuff like this happens with Sid or testing the fix is to roll back the kernel until someone smarter than me updates the driver I need

Or OpenWRT on a thrift store Linksys