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Re:The Decline of Usability by wmf on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:11PM (#22903864)
macOS hides the password field to encourage people to use Touch ID instead, but Ubuntu probably doesn't even support fingerprint login...
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Re:The Decline of Usability by Spivak on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:51PM (#22905180)
Every mainstream Linux distro supports fingerprint login natively just by virtue of using PAM.
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Re:The Decline of Usability by saagarjha on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:57AM (#22905431)
Funnily enough, so does every Mac by virtue of using PAM ;)
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Re:The Decline of Usability by ajosh on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:06PM (#22904763)
Ubuntu does support fingerprint login if you have supported hardware.
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