Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !

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Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn’t tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can’t be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn’t work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn’t work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago
    • The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized

    This post is a bit older and it’s possible that Mint does this automatically. The post goes through the process of setting up a fingerprint reader from scratch. If your system is detecting the device and it’s a supported device* then PAM is likely misconfigured.

    https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=408129

    It is possible that Mint now has a user friendly way of doing this… I don’t really know Cinnamon (because I use Arch, btw) but whatever it is, it’s configuring PAM underneath the GUI. You can configure PAM via the terminal, it even has a little TUI (spacebar to check and uncheck boxes).

    *https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

    lsusb

    Then check the table against the numbers after ID in the output of lsusb. This is the VID/PID, a term you’ll probable run into again.