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[-] ddkman@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

Basically competent support for hardware for laptops newer than 2014. Proper thunderbolt, displaylink, trackpad, fingerprint reader, facial rec support.

[-] Senseless@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

tbf more often than not displaylink just sucks, no matter the OS.

[-] intelisense@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

My company insists on buying these shitty Dell DisplayLink docking stations. They suck so hard they are just a stupid expensive 90W charger. Even OS X users hate them. The frustrating thing is, these things were supposed to allow us to plug our laptop in anywhere and get two working screens, keyboard and charging. The only bit that works reliably is the keyboard and mouse.

[-] intelisense@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

There is a driver for it, but it bricks my OpenSuSE and stresses the CPU so much on OS X that it's literally unusable.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder why Displaylink still gets used when DP alt mode has existed for many years now.

We used Dell WD19 docks and they worked well enough. A bit buggy sometimes but a firmware update usually fixed it.

[-] ddkman@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yes however on windows and mac displaylink "sucks" on linux it is practically unusable. I do agree Dlink sucks, but modern laptops have no alternatives to speak of.

[-] Jas91a@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Really? I find displaylink awesome I alternatively use ChromeOS, Linux and windows with no issues even gameing on windows (lowers the FPS but fine for my abilities)

Curious what HW you are using I have a couple of different Dell DL models

Linux on displaylink was iffy but it has been great the last few years.

[-] taanegl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You want open firmware, so this is not a DE problem.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

trackpads work fine on Wayland or wirh xinput2

I wish Wayland had support for multi-finger gestures. I know my System76 laptop's trackpad supports them on Windows, but Windows is trash. I use them all the time on my Mac, but I just use a mouse on Linux.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wdym, gnome and kde have 1:1 3/4 finger gestures and smooth scrolling OOTB.
And it works GREAT!! much better then on win10!
ONLY under Wayland though....
if you're using x11, you won't get the gestures.

I'm using the latest Plasma on Wayland on Arch and NONE of those gestures work!!

I am NOT using x11!!

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

something must be broken then.
thy work perfectly on both my 8 year old asus laptop and a new dell model from 2021

[-] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a System76 Kudu from 2018. I won't buy anything from them again, honestly. It was overpriced for what it was, and the screen is awful. And it still has features that only work on Windows 10. Not at all what I expected from a company that claims to be Linux-first.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

afaik tuxedo laptops are great... but I don't own any (and don't need a new laptop rn) so idk
also maybe you need a legacy driver for your touchpad like xf86 synaptics

Yet another Linux-first OEM that sells nvidia's garbage. No thanks.

[-] superguy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair.

I'm glad I don't rely on any of that, personally. Aside from the trackpad, which works as it should.

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