Does anyone have USB-C dock recommends?

I have a Thinkpad P1 gen 4 running Fedora I’m going to be using as my desktop replacement, and I’m looking for a Linux friendly dock.

I don’t need the dock to do much. Ideally, it could drive 2x 4K DisplayPort displays, have a 2.5Gb+ Ethernet port, and a couple USB-A ports, but 2x 2K DisplayPort and 1GbE work too.

Preferred price is <$150.

  • quou@l.quou.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Pick up a used Thunderbolt >=3 one from EBay if your laptop supports it. I have a ThinkPad Universal Thunderbolt 4 dock that I bought used for ~$100 and it has served me very well so far.

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      1 year ago

      😎 I’ve looked at those, but I wasn’t sure how well TB docks are supported by Linux. I may do some eBay hunting.

      • saiarcot895@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        TB docks are very well supported. Depending on the DE you use, you’ll need to “authorize”/allow the dock for it to get used.

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          1 year ago

          DE is fairly stock Gnome. Cool, I’ve seen that in the settings. 🙂