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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.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tb3 is supported on that, go with it, found one for 129 or so on Amazon. Tb3 is dramatically better than usb-c in every way, mostly because usb-c means different things to different vendors while tb3 is a genuine standard.

Edit: shit you got tb4, if you get a tb4 caldigit you're set for life but they're expensive af, love mine. They're a single cable solution for everything, 2x 4k easily, think I'm at 4k+5k and it's fine.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome, thanks! The Caldigit is my holy grail dock. 🙂

I wasn’t finding much info about TB and Linux, so I was reluctant to drop that much cash for something that may not work.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tb support on linux is arguably better than usb support.

Google boltctl to authorize the dock and you're golden, stuff just works for me, though honestly I didn't use my pcie dock on linux.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good to know. 🙂

A dock with external PCIe might be interesting, but I don’t have any plans the require that right now. 😆

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can say a lot of shit about intel, but sometimes they do hardware support in linux very well.