Thanks for sharing, so awesome that someone did the fork of synergy to stay oss and free. I was a big user of synergy 1 and was quite disappointed by the takeover that led to the current partially proprietary Synergy. It was a slide, first "let's have a binary builds for paying users to fund the project" then "let's have important features only for paid users with a license code needed", then the guys goal was to cre…
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Don't worry. Synergy 3 will be out soon to continue the slide
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
"older macbook" might imply that one of the two machines will not support UC though
Considering that 12.3 is supported on MacBooks going back 7+ years, that's not necessarily the case.
While 12.3 (and iPadOS 15.4) support older versions, Universal Control has more stringent requirements and only supports:
MacBook Pro (2016 and later) MacBook (2016 and later) MacBook Air (2018 and later) iMac (2017 and later) iMac (5K Retina 27-inch, Late 2015) iMac Pro, Mac mini (2018 and later) Mac Pro (2019)
All iPad Pros iPad Air (3rd generation and later) iPad (6th generation and later) iPad mini (5th generation and later)
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#123Didn't synergy get there ages ago? Not saying it's not impressive, but what is the advantage?
It's free vs. $30-$40 I suppose, but you pay in hours spend trying to configure an open source project.
synergy was free too, the paid client never amounted to anything and had lots of promise of cloud inclusion-y nonsense that didn't pan out. (I know I was gifted a subscription through a friend)