The easy way to get from 3.0.0 to 5.1.0 Atmosphere-NX without burning fuses - well not really, god this scene - an adventure story.
I read up on what it would take to take a 3.0.0 switch to 5.1.0 - then running Atmosphere, not burning fuses. After two hours I've come to the conclusion, that the tutorials arent there yet, and I cant.
So Switch is on 3.0.0 without exfat - but to do a full nand backup I need exfat. Easy. Use ChoiDujourNXv101 to update to 3.0.0 exfat. But thats an nro that needs a hb-launcher that comes as an nsp, that needs a CFW to be installed. So install CFW to install exfat compatible firmeware to make full nand backup?
Find one of the about one dozen different firmware loaders that might do fat32 4GB file split on nand backups? Ask around?
But thats just the beginning.
If you then update to 5.1.0 with ChoiDujourNXv101, with autorcm enabled to make sure that fuses arent burned, you also need to use a launch target for a specific version of hekate that comes with a kip patch, that doesnt update the GC module. And you have to define that in an ini on the sdcard. But there is no sample ini to be found on that persons github, so get one from somewhere. Let it be generated while still on a lower firmware? Ask around?
But then full Atmosphere is released now! And it comes with a different loader .bin by default, based on fusee. So Atmospheres default way of having people that dont want to burn fuses is to use a specific version of hekate? How about people that dont want to update the Gamecard Slot firmware? Hekate? Ask around?
Now - to prevent updating the Gamecard firmware, that specific hekate version uses a kip patch. Which is baked into the loader, but has to be called from an ini entry. At the same time Atmosphere provides their own kip patching system.
So one overrides the other? Both play along? "Dont update Gamecard firmware kip" has to be placed in Atmosphere as well? *poof*
*mindblown*
Ill stop there with a comment on "just releasing Atmosphere - without tutorials, or pointers on how it fits in the current - heck of a mess - loader and guides ecosystem - is not sufficient".
If you want people to use Atmosphere, someone has to connect the dots here.