So I'm not sure why you were running a command, the service is enabled by default and all I had to do was connect both joycons and then hit the trigger on both of them to create a single controller
got fedora media writer and the iso on another computer, did the "test this media" thing and it got through the checksum this time! things are looking up
Tragically, despite getting no errors on the “test this media” screen with a different usb stick, i still can’t get past updating kargs. does anyone have any other ideas i should try? It’s bazzite or back to windows 11, I won’t f around with nvidia drivers so no other distro is in consideration.