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.
I’m using an Anker dock with a Lenovo laptop running Ubuntu. It works great and will handle two additional displays.
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…
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The Dell dock works great with my framework after I installed their display link drivers (proprietary blob unfortunately).
The display link drivers are the problem for me. Makes everything so unstable.
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.
Probably Thunderbolt docks are better. Should also provide better performance as Display Link compresses the video stream on your CPU before sending over USB.
Just ordered a i-tec USB-C Dockingstation 3x4K with alt mode. Tomorrow I hopefully can say it is working
