displaylink-debian VS sodalite

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

Try Fedora Sodalite instead. It is Fedora(fresh drivers) Silverblue(immutable base) with Pantheon Desktop Environment (from elementary) https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite

For the Pantheon desktop environment, I'd instead recommend Fedora Sodalite.

Have you tried sodalite?

Someone could make a variant based on phosh, similar to how Sodalite (Silverblue except with Pantheon) was made

SWAY https://github.com/martinpitt/ostree-pitti-workstation PANTHEON https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite CINNAMON https://pagure.io/fork/beatlink/workstation-ostree-config/tree/main

unofficial Pantheon variant - https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite

Nowadays I'm told GNOME Shell is very usable with all the extensions that are available. And Fedora Silverblue is one of the most technically interesting distros I've seen in a while. I'm strongly considering testing that out whenever I get a new laptop, either with the default GNOME desktop or with Sodalite, which aims to bring the Pantheon desktop to Silverblue.

I'm wondering if this is where Silverblue, in the future, could come in. Recently, I saw a post about something called Sodalite, which brings the Pantheon desktop to any OSTree version of Fedora. To install it, you need to use the command line and rebase to it, and then you can use the Pantheon DE. Admittedly, the Github page says it's not a super clean experience.