Why the oems resist giving proper drivers for fingerprint😡 https://lemy.lol/post/24413858
The one on my ThinkPad started working when I upgraded to KDE 6 / Wayland. I was pretty happy about that.
For me it only works for signing in after sleep, but not for anything else (T490). Does your Thinkpad work better/in more ways?
Oh nice, I have a Carbon X1. I knew that fprintd has worked for a while, and has allowed me to enroll fingerprints, but has never successfully worked for authentication.
Linux is just more secure and keeps you from doing a stupid mistake.
If they did that we’d discover a minix system sending your fingerprints to CIA. and we can’t have that now, can we?
im sure there isnt a malicious reason why many fingerprint reader drivers are proprietary
This is why you buy laptop from companies that officially support linux.
System 76 laptop has fingerprint sensor. They don’t say it has one cuz it’s not supported.
And since it’s designed to be used as a tap/scan, and power button only on hard restart/shutdown it’s hard to press to stop it being pressed on fingerprint scan, the hardware not being supported means you have to press the power button a lot instead of fingerprint.
