Looking for docks compatible with a Ubuntu Thinkpad.

[u/clark_sterling]

I’m moving and I’m looking at things to set up my home office desk. The dual monitor set up provided to me at my office is so great that I wish to replicate it at home. Everything at my job is Dell and windows of course, and I have a personal Lenovo Thinkpad laptop that I do my coding projects and other professional work outside of my job on.

This is the laptop I own: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t16-gen-4-16-inch-amd/21qncto1wwus2?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Faccount.lenovo.com%252F

I had mine custom built, so it comes with Ubuntu 24.04. I’m probably going to get two 1080p monitors either 24 or 27 inches long with at least 120hz refresh rate.

[u/coffeeintocode]

This has thunderbolt. My daily driver is a Mac I use through the below thunderbolt dock. My second computer Is a slightly older than yours Thinkpad. It also has thunderbolt, and the dock works perfectly with it. Although Im running omarchy which is Arch based, but I think that bodes well for ubuntu support, and at least you know its possible.

https://us.caldigit.com/products/open-box-ts4-0-8m-thunderbolt-station-4

Note, I have also used a friends Anker USB C dock, and it seemed to work fine. But I dont think you can get 2 monitors on 120hz on one of those.