DisplayLink is terrible. Proprietary technology with difficult-to-install drivers that are also buggy. I tried using DisplayLink on a laptop for a while. It gave me too much trouble. - Random crashes, I had to hard-reboot my laptop almost daily. - High CPU usage. DisplayLink works by taking a screenshot, compressing and encoding it, sending it as USB packets, then decoding and reconstructing the image to be sent to the display. For office work, the extra CPU usage is small, but any animation or video or scrolling will cause a non-negligible CPU usage (and thus heat and battery usage). - High latency. Due to the whole encoding/decoding process, there is a small but very noticeable delay on the displays connected via DisplayLink. It's easy to measure by showing https://codepen.io/denilsonsa/pen/gPggbj on two displays (only one over DisplayLink) and taking a photo using your phone or any camera. (Suggestion: test it yourself to measure the latency.) Although it may be useful for some people on some hardware on some software, I think DisplayLink is just awful and should be avoided unless you absolutely have no alternative.