after using a lenovo usb c dock and having a lot of display problems. its a displaylink chip. and random disconnects (doesn’t happen on my windows work laptop). i was wondering what are the best supported docks for linux?

in my current situation the dock has the displays, ethernet, keyboard/mouse and audio connected to it so i can easily switch between my work laptop and my desktop pc.

  • M-Reimer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Probably Thunderbolt docks are better. Should also provide better performance as Display Link compresses the video stream on your CPU before sending over USB.

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    1 year ago

    Not a direct answer to your question, but I have a Dell TB16 dock. It does not work well - it sporadically fails to output display to my monitors and it does not charge my non-dell personal laptop (a Lenovo Yoga 730). However, it works great for my Dell work laptop running windows…

    Just adding this Incase you see it on sale or something - take it for what it’s worth!

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    1 year ago

    This depends more on your individual hardware; if your device has thunderbolt 3 or 4, you should go with a thunderbolt dock. I’m using one from HP, probably the predecessor of this one (because mine is flatter): https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-thunderbolt-dock-120w-g2

    Works pretty much without any extra drivers while the maintenance of my gf’s displaylink-based dock is a pain… Displaylink only distributes packages for the Ubuntu LTS versions, so if you are on sth with newer kernels (e.g. PopOS) you have to hold the kernel packages etc. Not fun. Will move her to arch soon.

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    1 year ago

    I have to use Windows because of the docking station problems with Lenovo…

    The only feasible workaround for me was to use the HDMI out for the display and the station for the rest but that defeats the purpose of said station.

    • Sir_mittens2@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I did get it somewhat working by switching to Ubuntu in combination with the Ubuntu display link driver. But it’s never stable