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Just tested between Mac and Windows,... mixed impressions. Login via Browser, no configuration necessary - or possible! Just the Position of the screens can be changed. Worked over wifi and institut firewall - OK. Copy&Paste works. File-Drag&Drop never worked for me really, so with 2.0 not at all. Closing the MacBook with Monitor attached - Synergy doesn't accept mouse clicks anymore - but mouse pointer still worked. Opening the Lid, didn't helped. It runs 100% in the background, not even an icon on the taskbar/... so you can not do anything. By trying to kill it, i found out, it's immortal. 3 processes, but even if you kill all 3, there is still something left which opens every 3. Restarting the App in MacOs doesn't bring up the application anymore. Logout/Login and Mouseclicks are working again. Window still not showing up - but hey, it works in the background. Nice feature: there are no servers/clients anymore. Both directions are possible. Just seen: Many features are NOT included in version 2.0, but will come in 2.1. Like FileSharing, TaskbarIcon, ...

Of course this is an assumption, but do you seriously expect something else? I personally never experienced something else. I'm already happy if the latest version of a product gets bug fixes. I know how business works. I totally understand. BUT, if they chose a subscription model that obviously doesn't work, because they promised that they deliver lifetime for free, than that is not my problem. Either they go broke or they try to earn money with new customers. With new customers they should not do the same mistake again to promise lifetime free updates, but actually they do it again.

That's what I did yesterday - not to everyone in CC but a very "nice" email (+youtube comments, ...). I paid for Synergy Pro, now I got synergy 2 pro for free. At least. Still a very strange and unfair business model.

no, synergy 1 will probably run into bugs in future windows versions for example. and even in the current version are still bugs present which come out just by time. They promised updates to keep synergy "fresh" and "good donuts", now it will become "moldy". your second point: no, literally they promised lifetime for ALL VERSIONS. Citation: "every new version" ... Whats so hard to understand that they fuck up with every old customer just to earn more profit?

I just went back to Feb 2015 when I bought my Lifetime licence: https://web.archive.org/web/20150206053837/https://synergy-project.org/purchase/faq/ Citation: "Will I need to buy again for every new version? No, you won't need to keep buying, you have lifetime access." I have to disagree with some of you. I bought access to a certain software, including lifetime updates. Citation: "every new version". Now they claim the new version or the update is a new product. Thats like buying a Donut-Lifetime-Flatrate and after 1 year when they run out of money, they call it Donut 2.0 and unfortunately all Donuts 1.0 are now moldy and claim that you bought Donut 1.0. The other comparisons just suck. I did not bought Windows XP and want to have access to Vista, I bought Windows Life Time. That means All Versions. I did not bought Office 2003, but Office. Not Oblivion and want to have Skyrim, but all Elders Scrolls games. If they promise such a shit, than they should deliver it do those customers. Everything else is lying or do NOT promise Lifetime access. If the company runs out of money - fine, stop the support or found a new company! I can not recommend to buy any more products from them, neither should linustechtips.