Work to provide RHEL/CentOS native compatibility
Every employee in the modern corporate environment has a laptop.
On each laptop are displaylink drivers to support the docks at workstations (for 2 to 6 monitors).
All of those workstations run windows, but they don't have to - they could run RHEL or CentOS instead, if there was a displaylink driver available.
Please work to create and support a displaylink driver for RHEL/CentOS. You would bring joy to many developers and engineers working from both home and office.
As the displays are relevant for only the workstations, creating it only for the latest version and not back-porting (RHEL/CentOS 8) is likely very acceptable
This idea has been posted before, i'm re-posting it in a less angry manner.
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Piter Freide commented
Having read the text on the website, I can say that the problem with DisplayLink drivers for RHEL/CentOS does indeed seem important. In modern companies, almost every employee works with several monitors, and dependence on Windows alone creates unnecessary limitations. The idea of supporting Linux distributions seems logical, as it would allow many engineers and developers to work in a more comfortable environment. By the way, for those interested in scaling teams or finding specialists for Linux projects, it is worth checking out the service https://ncube.com/nearshore-software-development-europe — it provides a good description of the possibilities for nearshore cooperation and the formation of technical teams.
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Sascha Dibbern
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I had the same considerations but found for RHEL/CentOS:
https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm
and some links to RPM-file for installing Displaylink on the OS