My girlfriend just moved in with me. We both work in tech and both work from home at the same time occasionally. We have one wide desk with a couple of monitors on it.

Whenever we switch between who gets to sit at the desk there are a lot of cables that have to be switched between devices and it looks a bit messy.

I would like to have a setup that would allow us to sit side by side at the desk and use one screen each.

I would like it to be as simple as plugging in a single USB-C cable and everything is set up (one for each side, that is).

The big ask is; I also want to be able to take control of both screens from a single computer whenever one of us is not working from home and the one who does has access to the whole desk.

I want to be able to switch between sharing 2 screens between 2 laptops and controlling both screens with that same computer. Switching should be quick and easy.

The problem is; All solutions I have found include getting something like 2 KVM switches and 3 USB-C docks and plugging them together in a funky configuration.

Not only is that a lot of tech for solving the problem, it is also very expensive.

Do you have any advice on how we could get this to work in a reasonable way? How would you solve it?