galoophgalooph@masto.galooph.com
Oct 23, 2026, 1:22 PM@ben Interested in replies to this this, too. I hunted around a while back but only found https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/optical-usb-fingerprint-reader-gnulinux-edition-tpe-f4500.
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Oct 23, 2026, 1:29 PM@galooph I think (speculation) the problem is the Windows Hello spec is a little too high level, so the hardware vendors can all do different things in the driver and just make the right responses to an Windows API call.
Rather than a hardware level API that can be easily replicated in other OS (e.g. Linux)
- galoophgalooph@masto.galooph.comOct 23, 2026, 7:24 PM
@ben Sounds plausible, and would explain the lack of Linux options.