I still have issues with USB-C causing my workstation to lock up completely when plugging in phones, unplugging them, or when they boot up and start trying to interact over USB-C. I've sometimes wasted substantial time due to this happening at the most inopportune moments.
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I've started to learn that it's a bad idea to do anything with USB-C unless I've prepared for a kernel panic / lockup. It happens maybe only 1/100 times but with how many times I have to switch between different phones and reboot them that's really quite a lot.
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USB-C also seems to cause problems with my non-USB-C devices too. I have a variant of this to switch my keyboard + mouse between my Linux workstation and Windows desktop:
amazon.ca/UGREEN-Selecto
If there's a USB-C device plugged in to the workstation, switching can lock it up.
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btw if you think this is a linux-related problem: sometimes when you plug a type-C device into a Windows machine it bugchecks. i've been told that in a checked build it *never* succeeds, which is impressive
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It doesn't have a USB-C port so it doesn't get to do this to me.
The only issues that I have with Windows right now are tied to the NVIDIA driver. Every time I switch back over to it and it wakes the monitor, it discovers that there's a monitor attached with DisplayPort sound.
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It tends to cause audio problems and every single time Discord *partially* switches over to using the new audio device which causes me a lot of confusion. I had to unmute the monitor speakers (which I never use) so that I can easily tell when this starts going wrong.
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I used to run games on Linux when they either had native support, but I stopped bothering with that when I switched to 2x 4k monitors and it's also nice to have one computer (Linux) strictly for work and the other one as my personal desktop.
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Helps me to focus on work or to avoid doing work when I'm trying to take a break from it.
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A common issue is that I'll be trying to do something like GrapheneOS release builds, which just involves a whole lot of waiting and occasionally switching over to check up on it. The USB-C issue will end up locking it up sometimes, especially since I keep switching back to it.
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Doesn't happen if there's no USB-C device attached even though the USB hub / switch and input devices aren't USB-C.
I should probably just get a power bar to plug in a bunch of AC chargers for the phones and give up on trying to use USB-C but... it's not quite the same.
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Thanks to the USB-C fast charging, I can take a phone with a dead battery, plug it in and start doing stuff with it immediately including it running a demanding workload on the CPU/GPU. It's sadly worth all the pain that it causes me.
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if you're not using 2.0 only type-C cables there's an additional issue (which I hit a few days ago!) where if the SS lines go bad but HS lines are ok, fastboot works but adb doesn't
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it's really quite impressive in just how many slightly different but equally obnoxious ways it can break
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