@gabek I have a Lenovo t480s which came with a Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2 and I run Ubuntu and Windows on it, both work fine with the dock. (actually I should specify, everything except the audio works perfectly, the headphone jack on the dock still has obvious software glitches that happen randomly after 5min to an hour of use..)

I heard that there was a terrible bug in the Lenovo thunderbolt driver/firmware which would actually eventually destroy the thunderbolt controller in the laptop. It sounded like the longer the laptop ran with that bad firmware/driver, the more likely it would be damaged.

I tried as much as I could to update the thunderbolt driver/firmware. Some of this might only be possible from windows. I'm not sure. IIRC there was also an official Thunderbolt related package that Lenovo released for Ubuntu.

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@gabek Honestly I've never heard of anyone I know IRL using a laptop dock that didn't come with its own quirks and issues. Mac, Windows, Linux, all seem to be affected by the perennial laptop dock issues.

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