| I would be more interested in his reasons to abandon Synergy. >But all good things come to an end. Especially the free ones. Why? For the past few years my desktop has been running very successfully on Open Source software. (With some blobs like flash that are just needed for legacy compatibility)
I don't see that changing in the near or far future. > I have had to stop using Synergy. Setting up this free, open-source app is a black art, I remember when I was trying synergy. I opened the manual and thought "that is quite complicated" and quickly found quicksynergy (there are probably other equally fit GUIs). It's a bit counter intuitive what IPs to put where but after that it's just putting an IP or hostname in on each PC and click a button...
That's much less "black magic" and didn't take me more than 5 minutes... > and when CBS replaced my PC with a MacBook, giving me two-Mac setup (which, I admit, is extravagant), I couldn't get Synergy to work anymore. So what was the error? Of course that was not the point of the article. But he spent so much time explaining how he wouldn't buy the other application because it was too expensive I wondered why he didn't take that time to research why synergy didn't work or what GUI to use to make setting it up easy. |
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