Working from home has empowered PC gaming for me. I just play a little when I'm stuck, and closing the work laptop screen is enough to disassociate from the working environment. I even have a kvm and reuse the same screens, same keyboard, same mouse.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work on my own PC, but keep two separate desktops going. One for personal, one for work. Ctrl + alt + arrow key to switch between. We don't have any dystopian monitoring software to install, so it works great for my use case.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd still prefer being provided with a workstation. This way it's easier for the company it team to install whatever they need, I don't need to care about privacy tools and stuff with the work pc and I can just focus on working. Also, no way in hell I'm paying storage space for work files.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm in a unique position where there isn't really any software strictly required by my org, aside from Zoom.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I won't do that during the work day, but having a KVM switch could be helpful. Everytime I want to use my personal machine I need to unplug and replug the USB hub and monitor. It's only a couple of cables, but it's annoying enough to the point I usually don't bother.

Actually, I just saw this post, I really should get a KVM switch...

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are really great, I have two screens, a mechanical keyboard and a good mouse. When I press they key with the laptop up, I suddenly have 3 screens to work with. If I run any long running process or zi want to listen to music instead of running anything on the laptop I just press the switch and the top screens connect to the desktop while I can keep the screens showing me the progress of those processes below (the screen of the laptop itself).

Peiole talk about working with 2 screens, but I quite enjoy using 3 haha.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What KVM switch do you have? Not many support triple monitors.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

nono, the KVM supports 2 hdmi monitors (and I had to use a myriad of adapters to make them fit to the displayport and dvi ports of my monitors and the graphics card) and then the laptop itself works as a third monitor in the middle of the other two, where I have windows I don't pay much attention to, but are still useful to have like teams, etc.