I haven’t gotten the fingerprint sensor to work but from what I understand that is pretty common.

Opensuse tumbleweed worked with my Dell 2in1 with no dicking around. Give it a shot if other distros aren’t working.

Dude Coven sounds like oven.

Tumbleweed my dude.

Smasnug…

Anyone know of any alternatives with similar functionality?

Your best bet is to do some searching around and find a company to do it for you. I work for one of those companies. I play with the real deal laser scanners every day and can confirm that there sure is a reason why a creality handheld scanner costs a couple hundred bucks and a Ziess handheld scanner costs 70k.

Budget

Still 1500 bucks

Same here except I stuck with leap as the newer kernel does not play nice with the suspend function. My little travel laptop has tumbleweed on it no problems. I’m surprised I haven’t seen more suse recommendations because it’s the only one that mostly “just worked” out of the box.

BALLL MASTAZ

It was the only distro that worked out of the box with my laptop. Everything else for some reason would crash when returning from hibernate/lid close. I was a long time Ubuntu user years ago that went back to windows when 7 came out. 11/copilot/recall was a step too far so I decided to go back. No dice with Ubuntu, Manjaro, arch, popos, mint, Ubuntu again etc etc. Suse just worked. I have leap (just updated to 15.6 last night) on my main laptop and tumbleweed on my travel laptop. I’m very happy with them both.

Polaaaand it’s gone.

Did you try leap before tumbleweed because I still have a few issues I am running on bandaids right now.

I went through quite a few distros to find one that would cooperate with my laptop and opensuse is the one that did it.

I went through Ubuntu, Nobara, manjaro, mint, pop, Ubuntu again, and landed on open suse. I have no exotic hardware. My biggest issue was the pc going into hibernate and then never coming back. The secondary issue was getting certain games on steam to work and an Xbox controller. I seem to have all of that licked with suse and some tinkering. The battle I’m having now is when the pc goes to sleep/hibernate/whatever sometimes it completely forgets it’s monitor settings and I have to turn the second monitor back on and then change them from 200% back to 100%. Which I thought I had solved by messing with the monitors.config file but I guess not…

Asus rog m16 laptop if that helps any.

I’ve had very bad luck trying to ditch windows. I’ve been through 6 or 7 different distros trying to find one that works properly with my pc. Somehow I’ve landed on open suse? That one seems to be cooperating, for the most part, for now. This whole experience has really showed me that Linux doesn’t “just work” for normal people though, and anyone who is adamant about that doesn’t understand the general populations capabilities.

Well I can’t get an iso off of their own website to work so… Cool?

The biggest crime against shared knowledge ever committed is photobucket fucking off with the pictures in every “how to fix this car problem” forum post.

I have those exact ones for that exact purpose

For the cost, finding a company to do the scanning for you will get you the best results. See: me, I work for a 3d scanning company. Unfortunately we do pretty high end shit and our sales guys won’t touch anything in the realm of hobbyist which I think is a shame. That being said there are people out there who will do it for ya.