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A simple input switch can be had cheap, but I spent some time last year looking into KVM switches and came away feeling it was not worth the investment. Perhaps
by soiltype 1y ago
A simple input switch can be had cheap, but I spent some time last year looking into KVM switches and came away feeling it was not worth the investment. Perhaps I've been misled? I read a lot of issues with cheap ones and the high quality ones cost more than just buying a monitor that supports multiple connections and switching itself.
- phatskat 1y agoI’ve never felt compelled to use a KVM, probably because my use cases just don’t call for it. I have a monitor stand that has a bunch of USB-A/C ports, and HDMI port, and can run power in via USB-C. I have my keyboard, mouse, and one monitor plugged into it along with a Bluetooth dongle and my webcam. My main use is work, so I plug in the dock’s C cable and then my second monitor to the laptop HDMI. When I want to switch to my desktop I just unplug the USB-C from the laptop and pop it in the top of my tower. Back when I had more free reign on my work laptop, I used Synergy to use them both at the same time but that was mostly so I could do “x personal thing” on my desktop while responding to Slack all using the same keyboard and mouse - without it I have to just stretch a little to the laptop keyboard.