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What is the state of Multiseat in Linux today?
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It's honestly not that great, you can mash together a working setup but it's a pain put in the most polite manor, I would probably just use VMs
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