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There are a lot of things that bother me and could be improved:
Lacking Hardware support for Fingerprint readers: in my Lenovo Yoga 370 i could not (for gods sake) get the Fingerprint reader to work. But I gave up trying a couple years ago. So it might be working now but i don't know. I know its not the OS fault because it is just missing key Materials and driver support from the manufacturer. But in the end I don't care whose fault it is. It does not work, and that bothers me.
Not easy to use TPM for LUKS: why doesn't the installer of any distribution use the TPM module for storing the decryption key for LUKS. Or at least make it an option. They are made for that! TPM is not your enemy. Use them to help you! Better to use TPM (with exported strong recovery key) instead of having no encryption at all or a weak password.
Proper Backup and rollback Baker info the distro: why was only Opensuse able to have an integrated solution for backup and rollback of OS changes and updates? MacOS has this since years (maybe decades...)
No parental control features: Plesse give me things like settings usage time limits and APP access limitation for specific user accounts. I know I can somehow do this via Polkit. But this is not user friendly and too complicated for typical use cases. I am very happy that GNOME is currently working in a solution for this in GNOME 50 (Propably)
This annoys me as well. I rocked a ThinkPad L390 Yoga until last year. Everything worked, except the fingerprint reader. Then I got a GPD Win Max 2. Again, the fingerprint reader doesn't work!
At least there's an experimental driver for the GPD device, but this is just so annoying. How hard can it be for these damn FP manufacturers to write a driver?
I forgot I used to use face unlock, the linux alrernative was alright but didnt use the ir sensors like windows did so linux one only worked while my room was bright, I got used to not turning my lights off at night just to swap distros and idk if itll even work on bazzite
howdy should make use of the ir camera.
it just got merged in nixpkgs, hope to try it soon
https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
Guess I never swapped cameras, either way I hated reentering my password to open any app on first login. I did remove/disable kdewallet at the time to avoid that, not sure if that caused issue.s.
Would still have to use the password or disable the wallet manager too