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In brief: I'm hoping to obtain a list of portable monitors that people know work well with Ubuntu.

In detail: I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I would like a portable computer monitor (about 15 inches, less than 4 pounds) that is powered by USB (not C variant though) and works well with Ubuntu. By works "well", I mean that using this monitor with Ubuntu doesn't suffer from problems like:

I also hope to find a monitor that supports basic features like switching between duplicate and extend modes.

A little research on Google has showed the following types of pages:

  • Questions about AOC-brand monitors: people seem to need help resolving all manner of driver-related difficulties. I want to be sure that, if I purchase a display, the driver exists for it. All the difficulty illustrated in those pages does not give me confidence.

  • An Amazon.com comment from a software developer who really likes an ASUS monitor that he or she purchased (ASUS MB169B+ 15.6") and explicitly mentions that it's Ubuntu compatible. This is the only explicit reference I've found to "display works with Ubuntu"

That's just not enough. Please sound off with what you know! Thanks!

Rmurphy
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because shopping recommendations are off-topic here. – muru Jan 10 '18 at 04:46
  • A humble response: To me, the statement that a BMW and Mercedes are both functioning vehicles does not constitute a recommendation of which to buy. Also, I envision this post being very useful to everybody who is conducting such research in the future (assuming I get many answers), and may appreciate it not being closed. – Rmurphy Jan 10 '18 at 15:46
  • that's not what you're asking for here, though. Here you're asking for statements like "a Land Rover and a Jeep are both functioning off-road", which is indeed a recommendation. On top of that you ask if the vehicles in question have power steering or seat warming. More recommendations. – muru Jan 10 '18 at 15:55

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I have an ASUS MB169B+ that works with Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10 with VirtualBox VMs and native installs. Getting an acceptable display resolution was not a trivial exercise and the result is not perfect.

Performance in the portrait orientation is disappointing.

It's a nice little monitor. Works very well in Windows and there is some effort put to keeping the official driver up to date with Ubuntu. However I suspect that effort is a labor of love, not a business priority.

The standard driver is the DisplayLink: http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu,

The standard driver didn't go well for me so I settled on this driver: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian. I had to hack the install script to make it accept the Ubuntu release but installation went quite smoothly after that.

( UPDATE: I just checked github and the developer has updated the script to 17.10 so the situation may have improved.)

If you don't mind a bit of tinkering, and/or can wait for the drivers to improve... well, that's up to you.

Stephen Boston
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