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> had not noticed that the laptop I chose was missing an essential feature : it did not have Display Port over USB C. Not being able to use my second external m

> had not noticed that the laptop I chose was missing an essential feature : it did not have Display Port over USB C. Not being able to use my second external monitor on this new laptop felt like a huge downgrade from my previous one Any DisplayLink hub will solve this problem. (That's what I did with the M1 Macbook Air) Probably not as fun as hacking on a Raspberry Pi, but a lot easier to find than a Raspberry Pi :-)

pcouy 4y ago
As I already mentioned in another comment, DisplayLink requires proprietary software on the host computer. I like my open source solution better ;) And the part of your comment about having fun hacking on a RPi is point on!
eythian 4y ago
Note that DisplayLink is awful and should not be encouraged. It works on Linux with proprietary drivers, but badly and not natively (at least on Ubuntu) and will eat your CPU. It has issues on Macs that DRMed media in the browser won't display (cos the OS sees it as a screen recorder), and it will probably eat your CPU.
- bdcravens 4y ago
  I don't recall having those issues (I've since moved on to an M1 Pro and then an M2 Max that support multi-monitors), but I'm not necessarily surprised.
- pcouy 4y ago
  Lol, if the OS sees it as a screen recorder, it must be much closer to what I made than I initially thought !