You don’t want your computer to gain incredible, godlike powers?

Pretty sure you still connect the kvm card to the motherboard power button jumpers so you can power on the computer remotely. That’s how the non-pcie version does it.

The network port on the KVM will connect to a switch (which can provide PoE, potentially), not to the device it’s managing.

Mint MATE also looks and works a lot like Windows.

Framework is amazing (I have a 7840u 13in) but they’re expensive. 100% worth it to me as an enthusiast and IT professional but possibly not for someone less interested in the tech itself.

It really does feel like their setup process is broken! Also, they fortunately only seem to break every 6ish months or so, which isn’t a lot but it’s really not great either. Maybe since it’s a newer one it’ll break less for the person you set it up for!

I have a few of them at work, installed by my predecessor. They randomly break when the app updates and are a pain to get back online.