Moving from DisplayLink to native dual display on TB5
I relied on DisplayLink for years to get multiple monitors working on my old laptop and honestly it served me well. But there was always some CPU overhead and occasional mouse stutter during heavy spreadsheet work that I just got used to living with.
Finally got a new laptop that supports multiple high res streams natively and picked up a tb5 dock (Anker Prime) to go with it. The difference in smoothness is noticeable. Dual displays running through native hardware with no drivers or compression in the chain. My external NVMe drives also dont slow down when the monitors are active which used to happen on my older setup because everything was sharing limited bandwidth.
DisplayLink is still great tech if your machine doesnt support multiple displays natively, it literally saved my workflow for years. But if your hardware can do it without the driver layer the native experience is worth moving to.