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.

  • isgleas@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    For the displaylink, are you using the drivers provided by Synaptics? The driver itself is not opensource, so I doubt you can find it on your distro’s oficial repos

  • X3I@lemmy.x3i.tech
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    2 years 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.