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8BitDo announce 'Ultimate Software Online' to update controllers in your browser to help Linux gamers
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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.
You don't need exactly Google's Chrome though.
ungoogled-chromiumworks 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.