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This only really works for people who have hardware whose fingerprint readers are supported by upstream fprintd; would be interesting if they (or another distro; haven't seen anybody implement this yet) add a "just works" option for installing and setting up e.g.
libfprint-tod-vfs0090orpython-validity(which I use on two of my machines actually), similar to how some distros (Mint included I believe, but haven't dealt with it in a while) give you an option for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers (or just make it work out of the box).However these drivers are extremely sketch at times so... I guess there's some good out of it not being preconfigured for people (because you have to look into it yourself and realize just how terrifying they are, both security and stability wise,
python-validityespecially)...(though now I'm on NixOS where I have it pretty much "just work" through not that much effort, at least not as much as on Arch, and definitely not as much as on Mint which was painful because PPA fuckery)
ah, there is it. My reader isn't supported by fprintd so I guess I wouldn't benefit from this change. I'm glad I saw this before I decided to give mint another go
don't worry though, it's meh-ish on all distros, and nobody automatically sets it up for you (as easy as I made it out to be on NixOS, it's not, and it was only "easy" because I'd already dealt with the driver before... in fact I had to carry over my old systemd suspend/hibernate restart script for it because it doesn't really cooperate with waking up from sleep)...
...unless your reader just isn't supported at all, in which case yeah nope