[vanderZwan]

KDE Connect is the one "linux" tool where after showing to my partner what it can do she asked me if I could install on her Windows laptop, her tablet, and her phone. It's been extremely practical when exchanging PDFs of (say) traintickets, remote controlling the volume of whichever laptop we connected to the projector for movie night (which was the "tech demo" that convinced her), and so on.

[shaan7]

Indeed, kudos to the devs for maintaining a Windows version too!

[saghm]

I checked recently to see if there was a version of it for MacOS for my work laptop, and they apparently do have one in development, but right now it's only available through nightly builds. The commitment to cross platform support for this really is impressive!

[TuringTest]

But does it work on Windows?

I've only been able to connect it right after a fresh install, but after I reboot it doesn't see the phone anymore.

Is your experience better?

[poulpy123]

I don't use it often but it works between my android phone and my windows machine

[IshKebab]

They should probably rename it.

[pxc]

I kinda like that the name draws attention to KDE. And it is still KDE software, whether you're using Plasma as your desktop environment or not.

[chungy]

I disagree. It attracts interest in the KDE project as a whole.

[whalesalad]

konnect

[sneak]

the k-prefix is a nerd shibboleth that does not help those not in on the joke/tradition/convention.

[sangnoir]

Apple didn't get the memo with their nerdy prefix.

[spookie]

It's a KDE project, I see no issue

[iudqnolq]

If it wasn't buggy over tailscale it'd be perfect.

I was travelling for a month and decided to put my sim card in a cheap android phone and connect to it remotely to keep getting SMS 2FA rather than getting roaming. After about two weeks KDE connect over tailscale said the phone didn't exist, so I was glad I'd set up google's remote sms as a backup. (I verified through tailscale it was still connected).

[vanderZwan]

Could another possible reason perhaps be some kind of battery savings setting on the android phone at home? Since you technically didn't open it directly for two weeks.