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A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features.
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[Feature Request] Native Fingerprint Support in Cinnamon #10234

Open forever-and-a-day opened 3 years ago

forever-and-a-day commented 3 years ago

KDE Plasma and GNOME have already adopted fingerprint support right into their desktop environments. Many have manually added fingerprint GUIs and CLIs to cinnamon-based systems (such as Linux Mint), but these tools often break, have setup difficulty, and poor system integration. As a distribution aiming to provide a traditional, yet modern experience, fingerprint authentication should be a high priority, from integration into Cinnamon's settings, system setup in Mint, and authentication prompts. This could even extend into terminal authentication, if possible and viable. I think that in general, when users want to switch to linux, find mint or another distro with cinnamon, and realize that a major feature of their hardware (a lot of laptops included) doesn't function, it will push a lot of users away.

Secret-chest commented 3 years ago

I hate fingerprints Love passwords

forever-and-a-day commented 3 years ago

That's okay. The point of this inclusion is to bring feature parity hardware-wise to the likes of windows and macos. People have hardware, and it should work with their OS.