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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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I had to scroll this far for a legitimate answer?
These aren't Linux issues that Windows does better. It's just companies that decided their hardware shouldn't run by Linux.
So in other words, you can’t use it in Linux…
Absolutely correct.
I made almost that exact comment in this post. 🤣
You don't suppose the fingerprint thing is a standard API kind of thing though? That was my assumption.
Lol - I was parodying your comment, actually 🙂. Not sure if fingerprint is standard api, but I suspect there is some proprietary stuff going on.
In the end it's not about blaming Linux, it's about getting adoption to a critical mass where commercial entities can realize a business case to support. Then the ecosystem will thrive.
Linux (and BSD for router workload) absolutely owns the server world. Even MS let's you run SQL Server on Linux). The desktop isn't there yet wrt adoption, but it's growing. Things like fingerprint sensors are definitely in the desktop (closer to end user) world and if it's the business use case that is the area of most growth, as I suspect it is (in India, especially) then I think these sorts of modules have higher likelihood of being adopted.