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Might get one of these to replace my existing "put proprietary glowy shit on here and nowhere else" device because of the whole "banking apps are going to start enforcing recent-enough patch levels" thing (my actual main device is fine with that but I don't want those on there, and the aforementioned other device hasn't recieved updates in 3 years), and if the:

promises eight years of software support through 2033

part is true, then... may as well, someday anyway

wait... Arch neofetch but Windows 11 taskbar, tbh I first noticed the Edge icon up top than the taskbar but ok

I mean, to be fair, user groups and services really aren't a thing that a "normie" would be messing with on any platform under most circumstances, and if they would be then there'd be some understanding that it'd involve some sort of "hackerman tooling" as one might call it, whether it's Windows's service manager or the magic black window with a blinking cursor in it.

I, for one, had no idea what svchost.exe on Windows did (thought it was just M$ bloat, really) until after I started using Linux and had already made several systemd units on there and realized that Windows kinda-sorta-but-also-not-really-sometimes has that as well.

A bigger problem imo is how Linux always seems to have a point-and-click way to do most of everything that your "average computer user" needs to do... but then somebody (cough Canonical and their snapd stuff cough) fucks it up and makes it so that you can't just say "you can install everything using the app store", which results in encounters like this one.

Oh, and your "why is this even an issue anymore" things like (shameless plug) this. Seriously.

don't worry though, it's meh-ish on all distros, and nobody automatically sets it up for you (as easy as I made it out to be on NixOS, it's not, and it was only "easy" because I'd already dealt with the driver before... in fact I had to carry over my old systemd suspend/hibernate restart script for it because it doesn't really cooperate with waking up from sleep)...

...unless your reader just isn't supported at all, in which case yeah nope

This only really works for people who have hardware whose fingerprint readers are supported by upstream fprintd; would be interesting if they (or another distro; haven't seen anybody implement this yet) add a "just works" option for installing and setting up e.g. libfprint-tod-vfs0090 or python-validity (which I use on two of my machines actually), similar to how some distros (Mint included I believe, but haven't dealt with it in a while) give you an option for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers (or just make it work out of the box).

However these drivers are extremely sketch at times so... I guess there's some good out of it not being preconfigured for people (because you have to look into it yourself and realize just how terrifying they are, both security and stability wise, python-validity especially)...

(though now I'm on NixOS where I have it pretty much "just work" through not that much effort, at least not as much as on Arch, and definitely not as much as on Mint which was painful because PPA fuckery)

what's better then, web.archive.org is fucking dreadful to actually use because of how sssssllllllooooowwwww it is (for downloading big stuff off of there you can use an external download manager thing to max out your connection to make it come through faster (which is a weird concept but for some reason it does work), but websites? nah), and also... paywalled stuff

curl -L matchctl.sh | sudo bash

yeah screw that, I'm not piping curl into bash and root bash at that

I mean I have to wipe out my ~ relatively frequently on some machines at times but that's for "actual" "reasons", LLM hallucinations not involved

Ok, now stop doing whatever it is that they're doing to the cursor layer that makes it feel like garbage (wlroots is especially bad, KDE less so but not as good as either Xorg or Windows, GNOME too but has other cursor issues so...) and then I'll finally consider daily driving any of this stuff

will try again with a photodiode instead, since it's known to be a valid way to measure stuff like this, and it seems precise enough at that

if it isn't this, then I'll probably have to dig into libinput or something

You gotta do the measurements. It's probably not even that hard, all you need is a USB mouse emulator (any microcontroller with USB peripheral support can do this and there are tons of examples) and a photodiode.

will absolutely do this, the microcontroller and mouse emulation part is solved for me already so I just need to get an appropriate photodiode and... profit