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eGPU docks?
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I have extensively used an eGPU (Razer Core X) with an Nvidia RTX 3050 for gaming under Wayland. Using X11 gave me nothing but problems, but Wayland allows for full hotplug capabilities (as long as no monitors are ever connected to the GPU).
Of course, performance is fairly bad with the official Nvidia drivers + Wayland, but it's good enough to play The Outer Worlds and a few other single player games, which is good enough for me! I have been entirely unable to get external monitors to work with the Nvidia driver (any help would be much appreciated), although they did work (coldplug) with the Nouveau driver.
When I was using Windows, I was able to hotplug/unplug the eGPU with monitors attached, effectively turning the GPU into an external docking station--I am closely following driver improvements, as this would be great to have on Linux to get around the 2-monitor limitation of the Intel iGPU.
Hmm, that doesn't sound great. Can I ask what laptop you were using and which distro?
I'm using the Surface Laptop Studio with EndeavourOS (basically arch, so I have all the latest packages)--the performance issues stem from Nvidia's drivers, so AMD should not suffer from the same problems, although I don't have any AMD cards to test if hotplug with monitors is functional