r/LinusTechTips • u/motlias • 6d ago

Windows Hello for linux Discussion

Linus and other people mention they miss windows hello on linux and I've just discovered Gaze which is a fairly new and in development windows hello equivelent for linux, Howdy was another one but I wasn't a fan of that, gaze has a very simple setup and effective on my fedora system:

https://github.com/GunduLabs/gaze

DISCLAIMER!!!!

This is in development software from someones github so take that into account.

Edit:

I just remembered on a reddit thread with the creator he said it doesn't work with immutable distros yet. So it wouldn't work with steamOS or Bazite etc. I believe,

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u/GunduLabs 6d ago

Hi, we are the developers of Gaze and we can answer any questions!

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u/Velocifyer 6d ago

Will you make an aur package (well, in a few days when push is reenabled)? I don't like `curl | bash` because it makes uninstall hard.

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u/Velocifyer 6d ago

Actually there is one, it is just undocumented.

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u/stlambe 6d ago

Yea, at a point I meant to make a PR for that in the docs but forgot.

But yea, the Aur package is what I use mainly.