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… Unless of course you’re trying to connect two external monitors through a docking station with a USB-C into the laptop with a closed lid and disabled inbuilt screen.

Unfortunately, in my experience, Linux routinely fails at this task (tried many different distros) while Windows “just works”.

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PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Depends on the hardware I suppose. My Dell dock just works.

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sudneo@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have opposite experiences! Multiple Linux laptop, with multiple docking stations: a bit of xrandr magic and everything works, forever. (BTW, try setting manually the refresh rate at different values for the two monitors via xrandr, I have solves a similar problem to yours in the past by creating a dedicated display class.)

On a Mac, it’s impossible, I have to plug one cable directly in the computer to make it work, and the quality of the output on 2k monitor is way worse since they disabled sub-pixel rendering or some stuff.

Windows also works decently on this regard, until it doesn’t (my partner’s PC stopped recognizing HDMI monitor at some point, and the debugging was frustrating as hell).

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helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Never had that issue on my thinkpad, sorry to hear!

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- SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m having it on my Framework laptop - I really was hopeful that it would just work with that :(
  
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  - fxdave@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Linux itself is not the problem here. Which DE is it? Does it use X.org or wayland? If you disable the login manager, do the screens work in TTY right after the boot? If you use X.org, Sometimes X.org drivers needs to be configured, Some OSes come with X.org configs like Arch. So in Arch you usually just have to install the packages you need. If you use Wayland, try X.org.
    
    Did you try windows and Linux on the same machine? Hardware limitation can cause such issues. But if it works with Windows but not with Linux then it’s not that.
    
    Windows may use worse quality output, e.g. different refresh rate, different color profile to fit into the hardware bottleneck. You can also experiment with these.
    
    USB controller kernel driver could also interfere in theory, you can try different kernel versions.
    
    Multiple GPU setups have also many options that you can play with.
    
    I hope it helps.
    
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    SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    If you disable… needs to be configured… just have to install the packages
    
    And this is exactly the problem. I suppose there might be a way to fix it, but if Windows can just make it work for me, why can’t Linux do the same? All this “Oh you just need to do X and Y” should be unnecessary bullshit.
    
    Also, it’s not that it doesn’t work at all on Linux, but it works sporadically. For instance, when the system goes to sleep and needs to wake up, the screens sometimes turn on, sometimes they don’t and I need to pull the plug and reconnect. This is never necessary on Windows.
    
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