So I’m shopping for a fingerprint reader to use on Linux desktop and found this list of fprint supported devices. The problem is that USB ID is not exactly the kind of information they advertise in marketplaces or product information pages, so I can never know whether the product I’m looking at is going to be detected at all.
I looked for reviews on Amazon of many candidates, but almost every review that mentions Linux support is a negative, so I feel that my odds here are not great.
Have you tried any device that worked with any distro, preferably out of the box?
any distro? no, fprint isn’t on any distro, so you might have to install that anyway.
I’m not sure what you are trying to get, is it
- a sensor for a DIY project?
- and external fingerprint reader?
- a laptop with a compatible sensor? (probably not that on since you asked about desktop specifically…)
not a device that “works on any distro”, but “any distro that it worked on”. And it’s a ready-to-use standalone USB fingerprint reader, not part of a DIY project.
In my experience fprint is a bit hit and miss. As an alternative, you can get a webcam with an IR cam (Windows Hello) and use it with Howdy.
