blog! “Gadget Review: Mokin USB-C Docking Station (+ Linux information)”
★★★★★
I've been looking for this rare beast for ages - a hub which has multiple USB-C outputs! You see it is a truth, universally acknowledged, that computers don't have enough ports on them. And laptops? Pah! A couple of USB-C if you're lucky, and one of them has to be us…
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A year later and 
this USB-C hub is still going strong.
I now have it driving two external monitors on Linux, multiple USB devices, charging my laptop, transferring data via USB-C, and hooked into my Ethernet.
I love living in the future!
Price has dropped to about £73 https://amzn.to/3OBooYc
@Edent You can do >1 external monitor on generic widgets plugged into MacOS tin and indeed default tin without widgets; typing this on a four-monitor M1 Pro Macbook setup. Internal GPU can only drive 2 displays at a time (more on M1/M2 Max), but with the lid shut, can get HDMI + USB-C to DisplayPort out, and then you can use DisplayLink with compatible docks to get another couple of displays if you want (though of course, DisplayLink adds quite a bit of overhead). That widget should do two outs!
@james
Ah, but only with the lid shut?
@Edent Having just checked, with the lid open too - so you could have 3 native screens on a M1/M2 Pro (vs 2 on non-Pro, 4 on Max).
My 2015 (Bur Sur) MBP does it fine.
@ScaredyCat
Dunno. I'm just going by what every USB-C dock says.
@ScaredyCat @Edent the m1 laptops could only natively drive one external display for others you had to use something like displaylink.
I’m not sure about the M1 Pro/max/ultra/whatever variants or the newer M2s
@Edent
I don't properly understand how the multi-monitor stuff works with these USB-C docks.
Does a (linux) laptop have to have a video card which can support multiple monitors, and then the display bits are all squirted down the USB-C cable to the dock to be split out into individual ports?
Or does the dock include sufficient gizmos to generate 3 screens worth of video?
[I assume the former]
@tpuddle
I have a cheap and cheerful Linux laptop with a bog standard graphics card. It happily supported driving 2 external monitors and its own screen.
So nothing special required.
Obviously if you want 3x 4K displays, you'll need more oomph.
@Edent
I've had some problems with mine (a Dell) trying to use multiple monitors, but I think that I suffered from buying a 'too new' model 6 months ago; the drivers and firmware weren't quite keeping up. Hopefully they will slowly catch up.
@jackgilmore
Huh! I had it in my head that relative anchors were case insensitive.
Thanks for letting me know - now fixed.
@Edent I honestly thought the same. Every day's a school day!
@Edent Thanks for letting us all know about this - I too have wanted a multiple USB-C hub
@Edent I like they look of that - especially if all three display outputs (HDMI+2DP) can be used simultaneously 
Always good to have a recommendation from someone else tried stuff like this - especially on Linux!
@Edent this is perfect timing, thanks!
@Edent just wanted to say, I picked one of these up based on your review. Very happy with it so far!