I’ve been using Debian Trixie in testing on my Framework 13 laptop for several months now, and it’s been working very well. For what I do, it’s actually been working better than the officially supported distros I’ve tried on it.
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@frost was installation straight forward or did you still have to tinker with the fingerprint reader to get it working?
@gastonrampersad Oh, great question. I haven’t actually tried it since I switched to Debian. It was working ootb in Fedora, but that doesn’t answer your question. I’m just so used to typing a password to unlock my computer so I probably forgot about that piece of hardware. I’ll try to remember to try it and get back to you tomorrow.
@gastonrampersad Trixie can detect the reader just fine, but I apparently didn't have the necessary packages installed for the fingerprint reader, but that was easily solved with a `sudo apt install fprintd libpam-fprintd` and then I could just configure it directly. Didn't even have to log out and back in again.
These two links could probably be useful if you need anything else: https://forty.sh/posts/2021-02-19-enabling-fingerprint-authentication/
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/session-fingerprint.html.en
@frost thank you. I was considering distro hopping to check out Debian. I’ll add this to my hop list.
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