this video is brought to you by purism makers of the leap room NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN laptops they have beautiful hardware kill switches so you know that your camera is off because the software has no access to them when those kill switches are engaged so check out their laptops now at pure isms website in this video I'm showing you a simple way of sharing your keyboard and mouse across multiple computers with double monitors so you don't have to have multiple keyboard and mouse for a variety of PCs that you might have at your disposal now this original project was synergy most people know sinnard rate it's a now a commercial project but it started out as open-source and the people over at barrier actually have picked up that worse an open-source project updated it and kept its minimalistic design so a big big THANK YOU to you guys just a great project I wanted to draw a little more attention to it because it deserves so much praise and if you have a couple bucks to shoot their way for a donation I'm sure they'd appreciate it but check it out on github I'm gonna flip over to the desktop and show you everything you need to know about barrier setting up a server here where you'd have your keyboard and mouse on your main machine but let's say you have a secondary machine and a secondary monitor it's hooked up to you don't actually need to have another keyboard and mouse for it with the synergy server going or actually the barrier server going so let me flip over the desktop and show you how the install works and then just a basic configuration okay so let's go ahead and get on the barrier github and go to install this now barrier a couple things I'll point out up here at the top you can see it was forked by a synergy core you old repository I think this repository is almost like NUMBER_TOKEN years old or something when they actually moved commercials so a very old project but everyone knows synergy and I absolutely loved it back then and before it got commercialized now barrier picked that up and really and just says hey we're just gonna maintain its simplicity and just keep this project going which is awesome I'm really happy they did this the goals here is to do just compatibility with Windows OS X Linux FreeBSD all of it just have it work which is awesome now with all that said here the OS is supported which is just what I named there is no NUMBER_TOKEN-bit versions for Windows and there is no dragon drag-and-drop in Linux so those are the downsides to barrier right now but they are working on that now as far as the releases and how to install barrier well I actually haven't installed it yet so you're actually gonna get to see it happen right now so for Linux users we obviously will just use flat pack and for Windows users you'll use the executable so let's go ahead and do that we'll just copy this right here and paste that in and start installing it updating so this will actually go out I actually haven't run flat pack in a while cuz there's a couple other updates that it's gonna do here so I'll go ahead and speed all this up to thousand percent
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