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minus-squareultranaut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down6·10 months agoOne of the major reasons I gave up on trying to run Linux on my laptop was lack of fingerprint reader support.
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·10 months agoThat would be a plus for me, actually. I never liked fingerprint authentication.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoSo YES, from someone who was asked to do fingerprint authentication in a sensitive environment (and had to refuse, even to the salespeople pested me)
minus-squareregbin_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoYou can choose not to use it even if Linux supports it.
minus-squareregbin_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThen I really don’t see how it’s a plus. Smaller kernel size? lol
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThe plus is that I don’t even need to think about it. My phone tries to trick me to enable fingerprint authentication every few months. My laptop? Perfection.
One of the major reasons I gave up on trying to run Linux on my laptop was lack of fingerprint reader support.
That would be a plus for me, actually. I never liked fingerprint authentication.
So YES, from someone who was asked to do fingerprint authentication in a sensitive environment (and had to refuse, even to the salespeople pested me)
You can choose not to use it even if Linux supports it.
Yup. I know that.
Then I really don’t see how it’s a plus. Smaller kernel size? lol
The plus is that I don’t even need to think about it.
My phone tries to trick me to enable fingerprint authentication every few months. My laptop? Perfection.