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I finally bought a thinkpad (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Bluefruit@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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And of course I'm installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

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[–] FriedRice@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thinkpads are great. But how did you get the fingerprint scanner to work? Mine does not work.

[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I followed this guide, worked right out of the box:

https://github.com/SeniorMatt/How-to-enable-fingerprint-in-Linux-Mint-for-T480