Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop?

Re:Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop? by codingdave on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:39AM (#21268921)

I work from home, and rarely take my laptop out to work in other locations, so my setup is complex in terms of hardware, but simple in day-to-day working:

Two separate laptops. One 4k monitor. 1 keyboard/mouse/headset/ethernet. A KVM switch with a USB hub to make it take just a button press to swap between the two laptops while using the same peripherals.

I have Slack installed and signed in on both so I can remain available even if I've switched over to the personal laptop. And both are also connected to wifi, so my active laptop gets the gigabit ethernet, but the idle one still has connectivity for any background processes that are running.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop? by sethammons on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:25PM (#21277198)

I'm similar. I have the work laptop and my personal tower. My monitor has two hdmi inputs. I have a usb switch that handles my peripherals. When I switch over, I have to press the button on the usb switch and then change the monitor input. A bit more work than a kvm switch. A friend of mine used to have a pedal switch on the ground for his kvm, it was really nice.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop? by tucaz on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:05PM (#21271904)

Can you please post a link to the switch?

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