Pinning a comment from the future! I made this video in 2021. It is now 2024 and I am not entirely certain Barrier is being maintained anymore. The GitHub for Barrier doesn't show much activity since 2022: github.com/debauchee/barrier As such, I'm not sure the current status of the Barrier project, but a new project has emerged (forked, I believe) which appears to have more traction and possible Wayland support, called "Input Leap." Their GitHub is here: github.com/input-leap/input-leap I am planning on investigating more, and will likely record a follow-up to this video in the next few months.

@ruukes4770

4 ай бұрын

I tried both projects and neither worked on my computer's do you know any other projects that do a similar thing?

@justinreed1388

4 ай бұрын

I have win 11 and Ubuntu 24.02 and Barrier just seems to panic when I cross from one machine to another.

@shymega

2 ай бұрын

Hi, I'm one of those who maintian Input Leap, and I was wondering if you got your my reply via email? Happy to talk more about the project, and the Wayland status.

Yes, please make BSD for dummies.

@mimimmimmimim

5 ай бұрын

No one can make BSD for Dummies. BSDs are meant for extremely intelligent beings who belong to a higher plane of existence. Not for the likes of us. As put kindly several times in the FreeBSD forums, they did not make it to be used as a desktop OS.

+1 for the BSD part! I've been using Linux for more than 25 years now and have always been wondering about "that other Unix-like OS", so a good comprehensive overview will be much appreciated.

@edgeeffect

24 күн бұрын

BSD isn't Unix-like... BSD is Unix! :)

You have the wittiest, charming and useful Linux-lovin channel on KZread 😀. Good job Veronica 👍 ... and yes on the BSDs, please!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Awww, thank you!

Very useful. While the abbreviation KVM can be confusing nowadays these switches and the name predate this virtualization technology probably by at least 10-15 years, so blame the linux community for not coming up with a better name.

@JoelAz909

2 жыл бұрын

Came to say the same. AT LEAST 15 years. I remember drooling over KVMs I couldn't afford (or get my dept. to buy) in the very early 90's and I'm pretty sure enterprises with bigger pockets than 20 year old me were using well before that.

@natbarmore

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoelAz909 absolutely. I encountered my first KVM in 1998, being used by a not-wealthy compsci undergrad. So if there were affordable ones at that point, there were presumably unaffordable ones several years earlier.

@wademeyer4495

Жыл бұрын

Dang it, came to say the same. Price usually follows features. The KVM switches we use in the datacenter are 200 times the cost of the one I have on my desk at home. Don't worry, we have thousands of the "other" kind of KVM in the datacenter too!

I’ve used Linux for many years now, and yes - it is AWESOME!! I wish there were videos out like this when I was first starting out. Keep these coming - the Linux community needs more content like this.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@PoeLemic

2 жыл бұрын

Since you have used LInux for many years, would you be willing to answer a question? Or, give me ideas on how to implement something to help my situation? I'm a Windows intermediate user (not guru but know Windows well), so it should be easy for someone in Linux to give me some suggestions.

"is any of it funny?" "i don't know." this is peak level critique in nine words. i find this funny, thank you for stimulating the neurons

Very high quality content . Nice production quality . And a bit of your special magic . You are soo unrecognized right now , I'm positive that won't hold for long . Love your style , keep up .

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Your videos are put together very well, thank you for making content. As a complete Linux novice, I would be interested in BSD video for sure. Thanks again for the awesome videos.

I have been using Syngery what Barrier is based on for years, and it is great. I actually have 6 monitors shared across 4 systems. One is a Raspberry Pi, so just about anything can be used.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

It really is very robust!

@wademeyer4495

Жыл бұрын

I too used Syngery until my company stopped paying for the windows client. That motivated me to just run windows as a VM and run Linux on my work machine. going to give Barrier a try for my new home setup.

The thing I like the most about this channel is the randomness of the content.Great Work!

Great intro to Barrier! It may come in handy someday. And yes, please do that video on BSD.

I'm in, love the content Veronica - keep it up :) I'd been dragging my feet on how to manage multiple laptops for a while, this is an amazing free solution. With multiple desktop spaces in each environment you should be able to maximize each on workspace when you want to focus on something specific. Nice.

Thank you for your videos! For some reason when I watch them I can imagine myself watching this on a local PBS or cable access channel. I mean this in the best way possible. Very fun and educational.

I saw this video a few months back and was inspired, but wasn't really set up to try it out at that time. Today I have moved a bunch of hardware around and I'm going to set this up, but first I needed to search around for this video again to rewatch and it's just as inspiring now as it was then. I love your energy and enthusiasm.

I would love to see a Deep dive into ghostbsd I have player around with ghostbsd a little bit but there is only so much time in a day🙂

FYI, Barrier is now available for MacOS via Homebrew. I was able to download 2.4.0 with "brew install barrier". Also installed it on Manjaro Linux with the paru package manager (which can install from the AUR).

@kingneutron1

5 ай бұрын

It's available on MacPorts as well :)

I came here thinking ho hum, let's see, "you have to tell it where the monitors are" wait, what, "shared clipboard" OMG, brilliant.

Learning in a very relaxing way, is awesome. You explain things so consice that it's not confusing. I lived during the era but never had my OWN computer until the 90s ... Seeing things like this with programs and periphals adpated for the now technology is amazing

+1 for more info on the BSDs. It's been a long time for me, it would be very helpful to get up to speed. There used to only be three people talked about: Open, Net and Free! :) Thank you for the info on Barrier, I have been in KVM hell (not the virtual machine kind, either) for months. I was floored when a USB keyboard I have wouldn't work with the KVM I have but works fine everywhere else...crazy!

This was amazing. I'm addicted to the content on your channel now. Thanks for the great content. :)

Been loving all of your videos! You have a fun exciting personality to explain things. It's awesome

THANK YOU for showcasing this brilliant program! I'm using it right now on both an Ubuntu Studio laptop and iMac (running High Sierra since it's from 2011). I had to use an slightly earlier version on the Mac, but it's working wonderfully. And it's great to see I can even add a Raspberry Pi into the mix. Wish I had stumbled onto your channel earlier. And I see you're a C64 and Amiga fan - perfect! :) I couldn't smash that Subscribe button fast enough!

I just discovered your channel today and i am absolutely impressed!

Just found your channel & have subscribed. I'm taking a A+ course & just did a module where they suggested Mouse Without Borders, which is a Windows aupp. Since one of my desktops is running Ubuntu, I searched for a multi-OS variant & found Barrier. You give a great explanation of & show real-time usage of this little app. I have spent HUNDREDS of dollars on KVM's in the past. My quirk with barrier is , that I must run the server from my Ubuntu desktop. This configuration allows both my Windows 10 desktop & Windows 11 laptop to work with one keyboard & mouse (just don't type too fast). But neither windows machine, when configured as the server, work; either to each other or the Ubuntu desktop. II will have to play around with this some more, but for now one *Nix to rule them all. (-;

As someone who has never seen this channel's content before, this video is truly amazing.

I just found yr channel the other day, & you have quick answers for so many things I need to know, & you aren't an obnoxious tech bro who make bad jokes in a fake voice like most tech channel hosts. Thank you, for being a good teacher, and a pleasant person to learn from.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome! :)

I love your vibes! Thanks for the video, it was really interesting and delivered in a great way.

Thanks for being excited about things and sharing them with everyone!

You like the BSD family and you have a very good and crazy style of video making and story telling, what more can we wish for 😁

Just paused the video to say: please, PLEASE talk about BSDs! They are here, even though many people haven't heard of about. I'm a big fan of OpenBSD, but FreeBSD is the base for some appliances such pfSense, and NetBSD is even inside Dreamcast (although it says Windows in a badge... For some reason...). Haven't tried GhostBSD, but I'm downloading it right now! Thanks for all the knowledge you're sharing with us!

First, cute dog! I loved the paint can hack! I used Synergy several years ago when I was running two computers (windows 7 and Mac) side by side. Good stuff then. I didn't know that it had been forked. It looks like the Barrier team has smoothed some of the rough edges. Thanks for the fun video!

22 years ago, a guy I worked with chose one of those trackball devices. While I couldn't get on with the thing, he absolutely loved using it, and most other people who tried it also did.

Another excellent video as always, the video editing was incredible, I have many laptops with different Linux distributions, I will try Barrier and of course I will be grateful if you share more about BSD, thank you very much Veronica, I always enjoy your videos.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

I hope it was helpful! I find it very useful when I have to work with multiple environments for multiple clients.

This is so awesome! When you moved the mouse between different computers I literally got goosebumps. This tool will help me in a lot of situations. Thanks!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, it's super exciting! I got a bit of a chill when the four laptops worked together like that. I've never done four before.

I'm enjoying all your videos, even the older ones, and they are fantastic! I'm Italian, and I don't speak english that well, but you are really understandable, as well as funny and knowledgeable.

Awesome. Thank you for this. It was exactly what I was looking for and out of like 5 videos you were the only one with the solution!

Hi Veronica, awesome, thanks for sharing!😊 Also enjoyed your historical Re enactment :D.

Barrier is fantastic. I used to use Synergy at work, to seamlessly switch between my corporate Windows laptop and my Linux developer workstation, but after all of the drama (security & source) I switched to Barrier as soon as I discovered it. I now have hot zones set up so that different sized screens only 'join' where they physically match up, so I rarely end up switching machine focus accidentally. I sit my work laptop below my ultra-wide workstation monitor, so only the middle third of the bottom edge of that screen is sensitive to switching to the laptop.

THANK YOU for being here! I totally needed this now! (new subscriber)

+1 for the trackball mouse

Always good to learn about different apps. Very useful, thankyou.

Thank you for introducing us to Barrier I didn't know it existed and I been using VNC until today. Goodbye VNC and welcome Barrier.. I very much want you to do a episode on BSD its a fascinating system. Thank you for yet another informative, fascinating and fun episode.

I didn't know about Barrier. Your video instantly made me a fan of the tool and your channel. Keep up the awesome content!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you. I appreciate your adorable personality as much as the content you were sharing. I've been looking at purchasing Symless Synergy which does much of the same with slightly less configuration, but at a small price. I would be very interested in seeing a functional comparison of the two software products. That said, your approach can support a lot more computers whereas a higher priced license would be needed for Synergy to support more than three systems.

Thanks for including those URLs in the video description.

Another Vote for the Ghost BSD video, please. Just found your channel today, love the "feels like how I'd show someone" vibe I get from your videos I've watched so far. Keep up the good work!

I like the music you end the video on! ... but also cool video ... just started discovering your content and yeah ... you show some really cool stuff about linux

Thanks a lot Veronica 🙏, I was looking out for software kvm.

Loved the video and a big yes to GhostBDS video. Thanks for all the time you spend for making the video's.

Thanks for sharing this! I had purchased Symless Synergy years ago, not realizing that Barrier was out there, and where Synergy came from. When I saw that the software resembled Synergy, I looked it up... and sure enough!

I didn't know about your channel in 2021 when I bought my motorcycle and named her Veronica.

Very nice video! I'll give it a try! BTW, this is great way to use old hardware and maximize resources. It is almost like if you have a tiny personal cluster :D Keep doing this kind of videos, they are very informative.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! I've had great success keeping old hardware functional using Barrier. It helps reduce the urge to distro-hop too, knowing I can just plunk another laptop on my desk and work with it for testing.

@mekuranda

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains And I assume the other laptops don't need to be on your desk...as long as they are on the same network....a bit like proxmox ...but simpler?

@PoeLemic

2 жыл бұрын

@@mekuranda More like Remote Desktop on Windows, or that's what it seems like to me. I use RDP all the time on WIndows, and it is awesome to connect to a File Server or whatever in other rooms around the house. With Proxmox, the systems are all on one box, but her video is showing connectivity to disparate systems.

Barrier is now available on Windows via winget. You can easily install it by typing the following in an elevated prompt: `winget install barrier`

At last, a victory for the algorithm! Very glad this video (and therefore this channel) was recommended to me. I laughed, I cried, I learned some really useful stuff, I fantasized about at last bidding VNC a very bitter adieu, I Liked And Subscribed!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Hope it was helpful!

This was well done, thanks! Fun tip - this plus ZeroTier = you can take your multiple workstations anywhere with you and your network config can follow you around.

@stevearkwright

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is free/open source - but it’s not easy to understand for novices.

Very nice video with great explanation. Thanks, Subscribed

This is needed, I am going to try it out. I have at least 4 different systems I manage in my "workhouse" (working from home). Its a mess of different computers, desktops, laptops, laptops used as desktops, and some on the same desk connected by KVMs (hardware).

i love the way you present your stuff

Great video, very informative and I see your in MN so I’m waving from Maplewood!!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there from Minneapolis!

Your transition slide backgrounds are great!

I already knew of this program but decided to see your video anyway, cause why not. And thanks to that i discovered i like your channel a lot, very lovely content!!!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Hey there! This is a great solution! Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Marcelo from Argentina

By the way, I don’t know if it was true when this video came out but on a Mac, you can install barrier using home brew. Makes it a lot more convenient, since it will warn you about previous versions you may have installed.

Everything in this video is AWESOME certified

"Windows exists, after all." 🤣

Yes please, tell me about BSD.

Definitely +1 for the BSD video! I never really got what can be better (aside from legal stuff) in BSD compared to Linux

So, you've got humour, Linux and guitars in your videos: I just subscribed (that was a no-brainer). And please do that video on GhostBSD! 👍🏻 Thanks.

@GuidoMakor

2 жыл бұрын

And now I read that the music is by you... Wow! What's not to like?

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! All the music is me! I'm very glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the sub! :)

Great video and bonus for using cattywampus.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

It's a good one! Thank you so much!

No wonder this felt familiar, its a fork of Synergy, but without the confusing bits (and still open source).

Thankyou so much for this, such a great tool. I have 3 desktop screens and 2 laptops, Windows & Pop OS, this works so well now. Love Your Work

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!! Glad it was helpful!

Very helpful video and yes, I would like to see more on BSD.

I like how you explain stuff hhhhh very natural .

Wow. This is amazing for my triple laptop setup. I'm working remotely with 3 different laptops and it's a chore to move around them.

Thanks - I'd never heard of barrier before, but I'll definitely be giving it a go.

+1 for BSD

I came across your channel through the little bird app and it is GREAT!!!!!! Thank you!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Thank you so much!

the short cut keys for macs are different than those of the rest of the sane universe. Ctrl C => Ctrl V == Apple C => Apple V (in apple land, the windows key is the apple key)

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wonder if this is what I did. I use a software to remap it and I'm wondering if the macOS update broke that software and I didn't know it. I might pull out that Mac today and mess with it a bit.

@locnar1701

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains Good luck. My fingers have adapted to it since I loaded RedHat on a work Mac we had laying around at the previous job. Great machine, once I got the broadcom wifi drivers sorted out. The real fun back in the day was when the 68000 Macs had the keyboard guide bumps on the K and the D instead of the J and the F. Why? Apple...

@stevearkwright

2 жыл бұрын

@@locnar1701: …Always assumed that’s where visually impaired people expected to find them - to centre their fingers on the keyboard.

@jackiemelanson4773

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a setup for Windows 10 and thank you for the infomation

@natbarmore

2 жыл бұрын

@@locnar1701 why? Because D and K are your “anchor keys” when you learn to touch-type, and frequently typewriters had bumps on the D and K keys. Apple was just matching the existing standards/expectations. I’d love to know why early home PC keyboards decided to move the bumps to the J and F keys? Was it industrial designers who didn’t know how to touch-type and figured any key was as good as another for finding your place? Or was there some other reason or a competing standard that they were matching? In any case, I learned on electric typewriters with bumps on D and K, my original mechanical typewriter had bumps on D and K, and all my computers (Apple IIs and Macs) either had no bumps or had the bumps on D and K. So after decades of touch typing, when I first encountered keyboards with bumps on F and J it completely threw me off. It’s probably been a decade since I’ve owned or used a keyboard with the bumps on the “correct” keys (Macs switched to the less-useful J and F many years ago) and I /still/ reflexively put my middle fingers on the bumps maybe half the time and type a couple sentences of garbage before I notice. It was easier for me to switch to Dvorak than to get used to anchoring my typing position with my pointer fingers.

wow I used to use Synergy all the time between my PC and Mac back before it became a commercial product. I never knew there was an open-source fork of it! thank you!

Ok you convinced me to subscribe. 1:36 was well done.

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

6:41 lol, that’s a pretty funny caption 😂

Great content. Please make a detailed video on different flavours of BSD, installation HOWTO, and usage as a desktop OS.

Hi Veronica! Came here for a good tutorial, not dissapointed. Even when I'm new to the channel (been marathoning last week), I'll put my vote for a video about BSD

Really cool video. I didn't know of this tool. I'm familiar with RDP on Windows. So, this might be nice to try and bring into my computer setup later. But, thanks for sharing.

Barrier is amazing! I use it on Mac, windows, Linux… The only thing is you have to create some certs manually, but it’s pretty straightforward.

I would love a BSD video or series! My first ever free OS was FreeBSD

This video helped me a ton! I use a windows laptop connected to a large TV for my monitor with my laptop screen off to the side as a secondary screen. But I keep my Steam deck docked on my table where my keyboard is. I wanted a way to use my mouse and keyboard on both systems and this was the ticket! Had to turn off file sharing to get it to work, but a small price to pay~ I love this Linux powered little handheld~ You should cover it at some point!

“I use this track ball mouse, because that’s just the kind of person I am” - dying laughing

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking about making it a t-shirt.

@blevenzon

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains please do! 😂😂 you have many many more priceless quips.

Super interesting video... again! :)

So informative and enjoyable! Loved the historical reenactment

I'm enjoying your videos. You're like the Princess Leia of Linux and explaining.

Love your videos. And I’ve that exact same keyboard. It’s awesome.

Barrier is great! I've been using it for a few years and it just works.

yes i would love to see you explain further bsd's

“Windows exists, after all” And there was much suffering.

I used to use synergy back in the day, glad to see there's a fork of it that isn't commercialized suckware.

Watching this on Manjaro XFCE on my 2013 Macbook Air :) I have Anydesk installed on here and use that to connect into Manjaro from my Windows 10 PC - works great.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

I just saw your tweet about Chrome OS a few days ago and now I saw this video in my recommended lol, coincidence I think not lol. Anyway, great video I used to use synergy but I am always looking for open source alternatives, you have earned my sub!!!

@VeronicaExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!