I currently have a PC running Windows 11 that my S/O and I use multi-seated with Aster Multiseat. However, we’re both equally sick of Windows and are interested in switching to Linux.
However, all the information that I can find on multiseat in Linux are forum posts and unfinished wiki entries for Ubuntu and Fedora, and they all seem to be from around 2008-2012.
We’re about to upgrade our PC to support two RTX 3060s and a Ryzen 9 (of course, including the usual two monitors and sets of peripherals).
Can Linux (preferably Fedora, as it’s my favorite distro so far) easily support multiseating?
Will there be any performance issues using this method?
Is it possible to isolate applications per user? (Aster Multiseat doesn’t do this, so sometimes an application can detect another instance on the other user and refuses to start…)
Thanks in advance.
Right, using some hypervisor and running 2 VMs would be a traditional way of doing this.
well, I’m not sure traditional is the right word, multiseat has been used for a very long time. It used to be a bit better supported. The issue is that since the migration to wayland, it has become… a lot less supported. It is still possible, but most of the guides are x11 guides for a reason.
EDIT: I should say I hope seatd at some point could support multiseat but at the current time I don’t think it has any facilities to, systemd-logind / elogind do support multiseat, but I dont currently use them