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.

  • Unwind2046@iusearchlinux.fyi
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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

      The Dell dock works great with my framework after I installed their display link drivers (proprietary blob unfortunately).

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      1 year ago

      ~I use mine on an XPS, but I have no issues with it driving two displays in either Ubuntu nor Debian. Works fine!~ scratch that I use a WD19-TB, not the same thing.

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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

    Which lenovo dock were you using? I was recently looking at getting the lenovo USBC gen2 (40AS) dock which I am pretty sure uses displayport alt mode and not displaylink.

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    1 year ago

    I used to use a Dell WD19TB (that’s the thunderbolt version) and I remembered a period of time where it worked better running on PopOS than it did on Windows 10

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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.

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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