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| At first, I thought that using a laptop computer as a terminal for remote-desktop sessions would have been enough for both Windows and Ubuntu but soon we realized that the performance was just not good enough. Plus, the feeling of having a user of category A, on the real desktop, and one of category B, the user with the remote desktop, was just not bearable. | At first, I thought that using a laptop computer as a terminal for remote-desktop sessions would have been enough for both Windows and Ubuntu but soon we realized that the performance was just not good enough. Plus, the feeling of having a user of category A, on the real desktop, and one of category B, the user with the remote desktop, was just not bearable. | ||
| - | The epiphany came with the term Multiseat. Multiseat is a computer configuration that allows multiple users to connect to the same resources on the same machine while having independent terminals and hardware controls. A reminder of the old times of mainframes and limited computational power, for our use-case the idea was just a perfect fit. So, after some search, I came to a solution, good only for Windows sadly, in a software name [[https://www.ibik.ru/|ASTER]]. | + | The epiphany came with the term Multiseat. Multiseat is a computer configuration that allows multiple users to connect to the same resources on the same machine while having independent terminals and hardware controls. A reminder of the old times of mainframes and limited computational power, for our use-case the idea was just a perfect fit. So, after some search, I came to a solution, good only for Windows sadly, in a software name [[https://ibiksoft.com/download-aster-multiseat-software/|ASTER]]. |
| Despite variegated comments on the web between those who love it and those who just hate it, for us, is revealed to be the perfect solution. After an initial configuration of two seats on two different screens, we reached a point in which I can play even the most requiring videogame and my girlfriend can work on her seat, at the same time. | Despite variegated comments on the web between those who love it and those who just hate it, for us, is revealed to be the perfect solution. After an initial configuration of two seats on two different screens, we reached a point in which I can play even the most requiring videogame and my girlfriend can work on her seat, at the same time. | ||
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| I hope that this post will be useful for those who have a similar problem and are looking for an almost optimal solution (at least on Windows), for us it worked quite well without any relevant problems. I’m honestly surprised by how well this piece of software worked for us. | I hope that this post will be useful for those who have a similar problem and are looking for an almost optimal solution (at least on Windows), for us it worked quite well without any relevant problems. I’m honestly surprised by how well this piece of software worked for us. | ||
| - | Link to the original: [[https://www.marcopolita.me/blog/2020/06/11/my-multiseat-config-on-windows/|https://www.marcopolita.me/blog/2020/06/11/my-multiseat-config-on-windows/]] | + | Link to the original: [[https://www.marcopolita.me/blog/2020/06/11/my-multiseat-config-on-windows.html|https://www.marcopolita.me/blog/2020/06/11/my-multiseat-config-on-windows.html]] |