I was thinking this morning what gift to get my computer for Black Friday sales. I think I would appreciate less typing my password and thus this idea came up.
Can anyone recommend a well-supported external (probably USB?) device I could add to my desktop? Or does anyone with a device want to say it’s a bad idea?
Thanks
VeriMark
So does this mean you endorse it? Or simply you found a product ad that doesn’t say anything about Linux at all?
I appreciate that you replied, just trying to find the context of your reply since no text was attached.
First of all, I chose the hardware based on my own judgment, based on its quality.
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Coming back to the software, Arch is possible, but the configuration is very complex.
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Ubuntu also has a possibility
I personally haven’t used it yet. I don’t know if anyone uses it in Linux.
I’d say hands off the fingerprint stuff.
I bought two fingerprint scanners which were explicitly supposed to work under Linux, but the whole setup was sketchy and brittle.
I retired them and decided to stay with password login.
Status alpha would be generous. Experimental is more like it. Maybe in five years, but not now.
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That is good advise..and I don’t see many (if any) people saying they’re using them…however, it’s good to hear of first hand experiences.
For a more concrete comparison, I think Linux fingerprint is comparable with fingerprint on smartphones from 10 years ago, while Windows is maybe comparable with smartphones from 1 - 2 years back.
That’s what it felt. It’s a huge difference if it works on 3 of 10 tries or on 9 of 10 tries.
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I’ve even heard that something like this isn’t fully developed for Linux. I’ve never used Windows before, and certainly not Linux.