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Can you get monitors in 50 inch these days though? Then this would be my route as well once my current dumb TV dies

Ran into this some time ago and learned that there is a more rudimentary command adduser instead but it does not do things like home folder creation

Well, the "distributed and automatically installed" part seems more like Windows users will automatically get that bloatware installed; no way to get a minimal driver without bullshit utilities anymore, right? I assume that utility will be written by the device manufacturer...

While I see where you are coming from, I don't think this is a pattern of thinking that applies only (or primarily) to right wingers but rather to political radicals of all sorts. We see similar bullshit coming from the far left with "all straight white males are oppressors" and similar statements. Might also be a result of social media echo chambers, who knows...

It is only important when you want to connect displays to the dock, if that is not your use case, any travel dock for 40 bucks will do :)

Main reasons I see being raised a lot are Canonical's absolute control over the snap ecosystem and the dependency problem inside the snaps, meaning they often ship outdated versions of dependencies which might have known bugs or flaws.

The fact that it is forced on users is mentioned by other people here already. Afaik this is not a thing yet on Ubuntu server, so maybe install that one + the GUI packages? Not an Ubuntu user myself, so this could be oversimplified.

Business devices from HP (Eliebook). Having mine since 2018, runs like a charm

The problem is usually in the broadness of the definition. Less democratic regimes can easily use this to forbid material about opposing views and parties. Double-edged sword.

You are totally right to be confused, the USB naming is a total mess. A quick Google search told me that your two ports are Thunderbolt4, another thing to mix in. TB4 to my knowledge integrates USB4, so you can basically connect anything that is USB2,3,4 or Thunderbolt3 or 4. Luckily, none if that matters for your use case, pretty much all proper docking stations support charging (usually the functionality is listed explicitly on the docking station description), so you can probably choose almost any. If you go with one of the big laptop manufacturer's product (Dell, HP) it is pretty much guaranteed to work. Personally, I use HP's Thunderbolt 3 dock for my gf and HP's universal Thunderbolt Dock for myself across my work and private devices. Even works on my android phone!

Just confirming this being a thing; had to battle the same crap recently at work trying to install Ubuntu server onto Dell Optiplex's... also make sure SATA is set to AHCI and not RAID, as well as the boot options that someone already pointed out in another comment.

Except for blockchain as a technology, I agree with you; decentralization and thus democratization of all these things would be best!