They say they're doing a webbased updater so that their software will work with all operating systems.... not said is that their online updater only works with chromium based browsers.... so...
https://web.8bitdo.com/browser-support
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All of these wed based uber-projects are built on Chrome. This is bad. This gives more control to google and strengthens their strangle hold over web technologies.
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Good stuff 8BitDo. I'm currently a GameSir enjoyer, but this kinda stuff is why 8BitDo is still considered the gold standard for controllers.
A downloadable program would be better for if the website were to ever go offline.
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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.
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You could already run the firmware updater with Proton/Wine though? At least I didn't have an issue with that, but its obviously not helpful to everyone considering the many flavours of linux. Nice that they recognize and are at least trying to address the issue though
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Where's the difference? A program still has to fetch drivers and software from somewhere.
So we can now download software from our browsers, and we no longer need to use specialized downloader app? I must be really out of touch.
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