I prefer my MacBook, but the Thinkpad whatever I bought to have Windows and Linux available for some software I need occasionally has a fingerprint reader that worked out of the box on Ubuntu.

Since when is using a fingerprint reader on laptops at all common? If that's a requirement for you then fair enough, but not having a fingerprint reader doesn't make a laptop so niche that one would be justified in saying "get serious".

Um.. all MacBooks have had a fingerprint reader for years. Without it, I would be typing passwords a lot more.

My Thinkpad's fingerprint reader worked out of the box.

Thank you!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

My framework 13 fingerprint scanner worked immediately out of the box.