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DisplayLink
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 12 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Noticeable input lag makes mouse and keyboard feel sluggish on second monitorUnreviewed
20172026- Input lag makes multi-monitor setup nearly impossible to use, and the driver crashes2024-01-22
- Choppy framerate and lag when driving three monitors through DisplayLink2024-01-09
- Driving extra monitors through DisplayLink lags enough to notice on M1 MacBook Pro2023-12-29
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Monitor stays dark until desktop boots and cannot switch Linux virtual consoles2024-12-25
- Kernel updates break multi-monitor docking display, forcing a rollback and waiting for drivers2024-12-16
- Input lag makes multi-monitor setup nearly impossible to use, and the driver crashes2024-01-22
- Choppy framerate and lag when driving three monitors through DisplayLink2024-01-09
- Driving extra monitors through DisplayLink lags enough to notice on M1 MacBook Pro2023-12-29
- Install requires enabling Rosetta and booting to recovery mode for signed drivers2023-11-03
- Must repeatedly lid-close, restart software, or reboot to get displays working after reconnecting2023-01-17
- About a second lag between typing and text appearing on screen2022-10-15
- Display lag makes the external monitor completely unusable for the commenter2022-05-02
- Requires a strange driver and workarounds; displays and M.2 drive don't work on Ubuntu2022-04-05
- Noticeable input lag makes mouse and keyboard feel sluggish on second monitor2021-01-07
- Crashes a few times a week and lacks Fedora packages or kernel support2021-01-07
- Input lag makes mouse and keyboard input feel sluggish2021-01-07
- Laggy on macOS and some apps don't display correctly2017-02-01