Hi all. I’ve been looking for a suitable dock for the framework laptop this week. This thread is immensely useful to get an idea of what’s available and what works. However, there still seems to be a lot of things unclear (to me) about how things work under the hood, and what combinations of hardware and software can be expected to work or not, especially in the display department. This is probably because there are a lot of older and newer standards and different ways things can work, and dock manufacturers do not seem to verbose about this. I wondered about adding a section in the wikipost about the technologies involved to provide some guidance to others, but thought to first figure out this stuff myself. That turned out to be a lot of stuff, so I ended up creating a new topic to discuss such details (to not sidetrack the discussion about specific docks here). It might lead to a less-detailed summary for the wikipost here at some point though.
In any case, here’s the topic, comments welcome: Details about USB, Thunderbolt and dock operation