Perhaps it is because I have used Linux for quite a long time now, and it did not always work so well, but I still smile when I plug my laptop (Debian, Gnome, Wayland) into a Thunderbolt dock via USB-C shaped connector, and its display appears on multiple 4K monitors within a couple of seconds.

I unplug it, and it comes back to the laptop screen.

Screen rotation on my laptop works flawlessly.

Thank you - genuinely - to everyone who has worked on making this happen so seamlessly.

@neil Magnificent, isn't it?

When I think back to those days of trying to get my damned modem working in Linux Mandrake ...

@hedders Yes, a lot has changed!
@hedders @neil I can’t remember the last time I had to recompile a Linux kernel. And that’s a very good thing.

@WiteWulf @hedders @neil

20 years using Linux daily. I have never had to recompile anything.

@hedders @neil Oh man, winmodems were such a pain. At least "normal" modems could be configured with AT commands... so glad I stopped using dialup in about 1999 when I got my first broadband, but I had to "support" friends and family with it for years after. Usually on windoze...

By the time Mandrake came round, broadband was a fixture in my life, so never had to wrangle modems with it. Was a good distro though - I used it up until Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog came out.