Sounds more like a Desktop environment question than a distro one to me.
Regarding the fingerprint scanner, as long as it’s supported by the kernel it’ll work - at least via the CLI. To have it easily usable for login and whatnot, I’d prefer a proper integration of touchscreen login into the DE, which by now at least Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon support.
For the usability with touch, for what I know at least: Gnome and KDE should be pretty usable. Cinnamon does not do so well (at least the last time I checked; e.g. scrolling the start menu by touch does not work as expected) For other DEs I don’t know, they all should recognize the touch, albeit only treat it as if it were a mouse click. The only DE that ships a proper “touch mode” that I know of is KDE, but Gnome (due to its design nature) holds up pretty well using touch also.
A distro that unites that all well and provides a solid allround package with little manual configuration needed has been Fedora in my experience, however I’m very confident that more or less all other distros (Debian, Arch, Suse,…) are shipped or can be customized to make it properly usable for your use case
Sounds more like a Desktop environment question than a distro one to me.
Regarding the fingerprint scanner, as long as it’s supported by the kernel it’ll work - at least via the CLI. To have it easily usable for login and whatnot, I’d prefer a proper integration of touchscreen login into the DE, which by now at least Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon support.
For the usability with touch, for what I know at least: Gnome and KDE should be pretty usable. Cinnamon does not do so well (at least the last time I checked; e.g. scrolling the start menu by touch does not work as expected) For other DEs I don’t know, they all should recognize the touch, albeit only treat it as if it were a mouse click. The only DE that ships a proper “touch mode” that I know of is KDE, but Gnome (due to its design nature) holds up pretty well using touch also.
A distro that unites that all well and provides a solid allround package with little manual configuration needed has been Fedora in my experience, however I’m very confident that more or less all other distros (Debian, Arch, Suse,…) are shipped or can be customized to make it properly usable for your use case