I have some desktops (the tower kind) lying around and I’m wondering if there’s a way that I can connect them all to one display and combine their computational power or at least make them all accessible in one place. I want to get into server hosting but only have one monitor. They’re currently running LMDE.

Any ideas?

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    7 days ago

    connect them all to one display

    The X Window System was invented originally with this idea. It can even connect multiple machines to multiple displays seamlessly.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

    It still works fine, but after most people have been using it only on 1 PC and screen, they abandoned it in favor of Wayland.

    Nowadays even self hosters, the cream of the crop of all nerds ;-) usually prefer headless servers and only 1 PC with many screens connected to it.