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		yepthatsreality on Sept 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've use... Just received mine this week and while I prefer a 15”, this first generation is a fantastic purchase. Love the 3:2 screen and Linux support! This has convinced me I need to invest time into KDE as well to help bring forward the fingerprint sensor into the UI.

yepthatsreality on Sept 22, 2021 [–]

Just to touch back on this, the fingerprint reader works in the UI via PAM and CLI. It’s just not super UI-only user friendly.

Here is the proposal for the fingerprint UI manager:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_request...

I believe but haven’t confirmed (and won’t) that Gnome may be ahead of the game here.

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