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8BitDo announce 'Ultimate Software Online' to update controllers in your browser to help Linux gamers (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So for the very kind of people who tend to not use Chrome because they're privacy aware and actually tend to use Ad-Blockers, and who are very likely to be fine with standalone apps, they don't make a standalone firmware updater app and instead make a Chrome only firmware updater.

I mean, I get it that in Linux accessing a USB-serial device from userspace can require an extra step (add user to "dialout" group), but it's hardly something that takes more than 1 paragraph to fully explain and you can do the check for access denied in the app and only prompt the user to do it if that error occurs.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

Believe it or not, people use Linux for more than just privacy reasons.

[–] zyk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

You don't need exactly Google's Chrome though. ungoogled-chromium works as well and it doesn't send a bit to any of Big Tech's servers.

I have it installed and I have already bookmarked 10+ different flashers and updaters I've needed so far. And I genuinely think it's better than 10+ poorly made Electron apps I'd have to install instead.

Though I wouldn't daily drive a browser that allows websites to screw my USB devices.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Installed the 8bitdo windows software using Lutris on Bazzite and it worked just fine for me.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Working your way around stupid obstacles is the Linux way...

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Very close to the kind of people who wouldn't buy 8bitdo, hmm...