Upon booting, there is about an 80% chance that the laptop will simply freeze, load to a black screen, or just dump a bunch of text in a booting terminal window and eventually freeze when it is plugged into my Dell WD19TB Thunderbolt 3 dock.
If I boot my laptop without the dock plugged in there is no issues, however if I then plug the dock in afterwards, there is again an ~80% chance that it will freeze. Sometimes the freeze is immediate, other times I can move the mouse around but it will be very very choppy and eventually stop being responsive.
If I keep trying, eventually it will boot into the system with the dock plugged in and everything working fine.
I've seen a few posts in the past about this same issue:
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS issue with Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock after update
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/678174
After most recent kernel update (4.15.0-44-generic) my tablet freezes whenever plugged into docking station
So it seems to likely be related to the Kernel. However, I've tried several different Kernels and I am not having any luck with any of the more recent ones.
I am currently using 5.11.0-38-generic and also have -37-generic and have used several older ones (I think something like 5.4.x~)
Is there a known stable Kernel that will work with this configuration?