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long time user, it's always been great. runs most of my home. absolutely invaluable.
i'd love to see standards, a mouse & keyboard & clipboard standard protocol emerge some day.
Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuous…
There was an open letter from the CEO just last week about re-staffing the team to be more engineering-oriented: https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team (Edited, thanks corpMaverick and stagger87)
Now they are keeping the key members responsible for the buggy v2 (CEO + Devs).
I loved v1. I am skeptical that they will produce a reliable v3...
Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuous…
There was an open letter from the CEO just last week about re-staffing the team to be more engineering-oriented: https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team (Edited, thanks corpMaverick and stagger87)
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
SSL & other important features
I'm really happy that they open sourced their core code! That's an awesome thing for a company that's making money from this code to do. I know they've had some issues going from 1.x to 2.x (see other comments) but this is a really brave step for them to take and I want to applaud them for moving to an open source model for a portion of their paid product. I hope this helps them turn around their 2.x version.
Synergy was originally fully open source, it came out of an open source project, what they actually did was close the frontend for 2.0.
I tried synergy, with the hope that I could control a Linux media PC from both Linux and Windows machines. Unfortunately it was too flaky, e.g. control keys never being released (I think it's https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/9 ). These days I use x2x over SSH. I don't use it on Windows, but then again I don't use Windows ;) I have two system services which poll the surrounding WiFi networks: when I'm at…