displaylink-debian VS Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide

That is exactly it, proprietary driver. I use https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian with excellent results with my Pluggable brand USB dock.

The monitor works fine with Windows 10 after I install the drivers. With the Ubuntu, however, things do not work. I tried installing the driver suggested by ASUS specific for this model, the most recent official Display Link driver, and the community script. All have give the same result: installation is said to be successful and asks me to reboot. I reboot and connect the screen. Screen turns on and keeps black. No display is detected. In Additional Drivers there is no drivers listed.

u/marvelggg was correct the issue was DisplayLink. Unfortnuately it wasn't possible to just reinstall their driver because they are not up to date with the current Linux kernel. I used calebanthony's advice from this page to get me back on track;https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/issues/745

If you use an Ubuntu or Debian based distro here is a DisplayLink driver: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian

(The lenovo branded dock is most horrible especially when used with Linux - needs drivers to be install. https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian All others just work).

I bought a DisplayLink dock for my ubuntu laptops (2015 XPS and 2021 XPS) and it doesn't really work with either. It's quite maddening.

It requires a strange driver I would've preferred to avoid. I tried a strange workaround on both and neither really works; one still doesn't display through the DisplayPort or HDMI, the other doesn't work with the M.2 2280 built into the dock.

\[0\]: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian

This is one way, but it might be a little outdated.

Fedora Workstation comes with GNOME by default. OTOH the Fedora Everything ISO lets you do a customised install. I recently did a minimal KDE install using this guide for my old laptop.

There is a guide https://github.com/Zer0CoolX/Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide for this, but a bit outdated.

This one https://github.com/Zer0CoolX/Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide Yeah it's pretty simple to follow, you just need to used the "everything iso" and you get a nice minimal setup, I'm like you though, I just remove what I don't want

Aqui

Check out https://github.com/Zer0CoolX/Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide. I have not updated it for a few versions of Fedora but it should give you a foundation to start from.

You can do the same with KDE or Xfce (guide for Debian) with minimal effort involved. All of these will idle very low, usually around 400-500mb. Just use what's comfy to you! :)