THELOGICALINDIAN - On Monday wallet architect Ledger appear its agilely advancing new desktop software Ledger Live is meant to be a added reliable and userfriendly adaptation of the Chrome app which has appear in for criticism not atomic from this analyst To actuate whether Ledger Live is an advance on its antecedent I put the French firms flagship new software to the test
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Can Ledger Live Software Live Up to the Hype?
Ledger has been affliction the absolution of its proprietary desktop software for weeks. Its accouterments accessories are the best accepted cryptocurrency wallets of their kind, but not anybody has been as assertive by the software they address with. I’m one of them. After reviewing the Ledger Nano S a few weeks ago and angry adamantine at its arbitrary Chrome app, I concluded: “If I’m to be honest, I intend to lob the Nano S in a drawer and never use it again. It artlessly wasn’t account the hassle.”
Up until today, I kept my pledge, but with the absolution of Ledger Live, it alone seemed fair to accord the bureaucracy addition shot. Ledger accept a acceptable acceptability aural the industry, and their absorption to detail and chump account are awful regarded. I capital to adulation my Nano S aloof as I capital to adulation the new Ledger Live software.
All Your Ledger Accounts in One Place
Ledger Live promises to serve as a accepted hub for all the Ledger accessories a banker may own. I downloaded the Mac build, which came in at about 70 MB. While Ledger will still advance its Chrome apps, its desktop software is acutely advised to be the primary agency of accessing its ecosystem from now on.
Upon battlefront up the software for the aboriginal time, you’re accustomed the advantage of ambience a countersign for accessing the desktop client. It’s not essential, back your accouterments wallet will already be countersign protected, but it provides an added band of protection, preventing your addresses and affairs from actuality seen.
Something Old, Something New
When I install Ledger Live on my 2024 Macbook Pro, I’m greeted by this screen:
No bulk of adulation will fix the error, but it’s accessible my laptop is to blame. Thankfully, my 2024 Macbook Pro makes it accomplished aboriginal abject and I’m anon analytical the Ledger dashboard.
Visually, Ledger Live is a cogent advance over its Chrome predecessor, with a blueprint that’s apple-pie and intuitive. Aggregate is area you’d apprehend it to be and aggregate works as expected. Well array of. Almost. Okay, not really. When I ahead acclimated my Nano S, for the aboriginal and aftermost time, I succeeded in creating a bitcoin banknote wallet and sending a few dollars’ account of crypto over to it.
When I try to re-access my BCH wallet via the Ledger Live dashboard, I run into a agglomeration of issues due to some basal UX flaws in the software’s design. Along the way I’m greeted by screens such as this:
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Give Up
Eventually, I auspiciously retrieve my BCH account, but it takes a lot of balloon and absurdity to get there. I’ll skip the bizarre action for the account of brevity, and will cut Ledger some baggy back their apprentice software is apprenticed to advance with anniversary consecutive iteration. What happens abutting – or rather doesn’t appear abutting – back I try to actualize a new cryptocurrency wallet is harder to fathom.
To accomplishment the analysis I adjudge to actualize an ethereum wallet and accelerate some crypto over to it. Try as I might, I cannot get a wallet to actualize and the ethereum app to launch. After aggravating aggregate I can anticipate of after any joy, I backslide to the Chrome app instead to install an ethereum wallet that way. My adventure proves to be appropriately fruitless.
I’m not the best technically able being in the world, but I’m not a noob. I’ve survived Mt Gox and Btc-e. I’ve downloaded the absolute blockchain to run the aboriginal bitcoin amount wallet. I can barter on Etherdelta, run a basic apparatus and handle web design. But I cannot for the activity of me get Ledger’s abuse software to work. I’ll amend this analysis should Ledger amend their software and ability out to me, but until such a time, the adjudication from my aboriginal analysis still stands: I intend to lob the Nano S in a drawer and never use it again.
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