Plugable USB4 dock Linux compatibility, or similar recommended USB4 dock with around 100W PD for the AI 300

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Hi all, currently eyeing the following USB4 dock (40Gbps, 100W), seems to check all the boxes for me, but I’m unsure how it works on Linux for the AI 300 series.

Plugable USB C Docking Station Dual Monitor, 11-in-1, USB4 40G 100W

I want to use this dock under Fedora Workstation. Does anybody have any experience with this dock under Linux?

Or does anybody have any similar USB4 docks (40Gbps, 100W) that could be recommended for Linux?

Thanks

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Looks like that one should work fine. The key you want to look for is “driver-less” to make sure it doesn’t need that awful displaylink crap. This dock seems to be one such dock. Other things to look for are MST with DSC but they often don’t list that specifically.

I recently got this dock because I need 3 monitors and more USB ports than the one you are getting. Works great!

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We do not currently recommend our UD-4VPD USB4 docking station, or Thunderbolt 4 docking stations with DisplayPort MST for use with AMD computers with Linux at this time. For Windows it should be just fine, but the Linux AMD MST drivers are just not stable enough for us to recommend this configuration.

Alternative docking station options for Thunderbolt 4 is Intel’s USB4 implementation that should work just fine with USB4 hosts:

  • TBT4-UDX1 - no MST, Thunderbolt 4 (displays limited to 4K 60Hz)
  • TBT4-UD5 - no MST, Thunderbolt 4 (displays limited to 4K 60Hz)
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Thanks for the heads up. Guess I’ll have to look elsewhere.

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What kernel did you check with? I believe with 6.15 things should be improved now that deferred aux traffic is handled. This helped a variety of docks and monitors.